The Effect of Transformational leadership behavior on employee performance: mediation role of Employee Engagement (EE): (Case study of FDRE Ministry of Agriculture)
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2020-01
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Purpose- The aim of this study is to explore the relation between Transformational leadership behavior and employee Performance. It also examines the mediating effect of employee engagement in relation Variables, in the case of FDRE Ministry of Agriculture.
Design/methodology/approach- Theoretically, leadership is a key antecedent of employee performance and employee engagement the research used Equity theory is selected by the researcher because this theory was used to predict the individual relation, idealized influence, inspirational motivation, intellectual simulation, engagement and performance of employees. Both primary and secondary data were used. Simple random sampling was solicited response from selected 294 respondents. A quantitative research design was adopted. This study used two sampling stage. The first on is to sample out the organization’s (strata’s) from the organization and secondly the number of respondents within the organization. Data were collected from the sample of 294 from the organization through standard questionnaire. Descriptive statistics, correlation, regression analysis and mediation analysis were used to analyze the data with the aid of SPSS version 20. And additionally, hayes process procedure model Version 3.4 was used for computing and the mediation analysis.
Findings- the study finds that engagement has a mediating effect of the relationship between transformational leadership behaviors on employee performance. Results showed that, all idealized influence, inspirational motivation, intellectual simulation, individual consideration and employee engagement were significant on the employee performance. Moreover, the findings indicated employee engagement mediates the relationship between transformational leadership behavior and employee performance.
Recommendation- that Ministry of agriculture Transformational leadership should be taught to all people at all levels of organization to have a positive impact on the overall performance.
Limitation- Only one Ministry organization are included in the sample and only focused on one leadership behavior (transformational leadership behavior).
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Thesis Submitted to School of Graduate Studies of Addis Ababa University for Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements of the Degree of Masters of Science in Management
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Employee engagement, Performance, Transformational leadership