EFFECTS OF TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP ON EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT: THE MEDIATING ROLE OF EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT

Public service reforms mostly depend on high levels of motivation and commitment on the part of leaders to solve complex problems associate d with implementation and restructuring initiatives. While transformational leaders have be en advocated as productive under such conditions and evidence suggests that the leader practices do contribute to organizational performance, majority of existing literature has been on the effects of transformational leadership on organizational performance. Little evidence is however available a s to which attributes of the transformational leader actually result in organizational performance and even fewer studies have focused on the possible mediators in this relationship.