2018

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Impact of Perceived Leadership Styles on Employee Engagement and Psychological Wellbeing
(UMT.Lahore, 2018-07) MARYAM MANZOOR WATTOO
The aim of this study is to empirically investigate the relationship among employee’s perception of their supervisors authentic and transformational leadership style and employee’s engagement and psychological wellbeing. Also investigate the mediating role of trust in leadership among leadership styles and employee engagement and employee psychological wellbeing. Now a day’s, leadership, employee engagement and their psychological wellbeing are considered to be essential for the sustainability and growth of the organization. The data was collected from upper level and middle level general employees and sample size of this study was 300 employees of private telecom sector. Results show that authentic and transformational leadership have an impact on employee engagement, but authentic and transformational leadership does not impact on employee psychological wellbeing. Trust in leadership partially mediates between the authentic leadership and employee engagement; transformational leadership and employee engagement. While trust in leadership does not mediates between the authentic leadership and psychological wellbeing; transformational leadership and psychological wellbeing. A cultural gap is found between the western context and Asian context. Practical and theoretical implications, limitations and future directions are also discussed.