The Relationship between Leadership Styles and Employees Engagement in Ethiopian Airlines
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2017-06
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
The dynamic and turbulent nature of current competitive global economy has pushed companies
to exploit their available resources as a means of achieving competitive advantage. In this regard
leadership can be considered as a critical and essential because it has a great consequence on the
performance of an organization. The study followed both descriptive and explanatory type of
research design and quantitative study approach is used to investigate the relationship between
Leadership styles and employees’ engagement at Ethiopian Airlines. The target population of
this study was employees of Ethiopian Airlines working at Head Quarter, which includes the
7strategic business units. From 9,604 total populations of Ethiopian Airlines Head Quarters, 370
employees were selected as samples of the total population. Stratified random sampling technique
was used to select the samples of the total population. As the study was crossectional, one time data
was collected by using standardized questionnaires of leadership behavior (Multi Factor Leadership
Questionnaire 3rd edition) and Urchtect work Employees engagement rating scale. Correlation and
linear regression were used to analyze the relationship between Transactional & Transformational
leadership styles and employees engagement dimensions. The regression results showed that
Transactional & Transformational leadership styles have positive relationship with employees
engagement. Moreover, all employees’ engagement dimensions were significantly explained by
Transactional & Transformational leadership styles .Generally, Transformative leadership has
strong relationship with employees’ engagement and leaders shall be more transformative to
enhance and develop employees’ engagement to the highest level.
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A Thesis Submitted to School of Graduate Studies of Addis Ababa University
For Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements of the Degree of Master in
Business Administration in Management
Keywords
Employees engagement, Leadership style