Mediating Role of Employee Engagement with Transformational Leadership and Turnover Intention.

TRANSFORMATIONAL leadership; JOB involvement; HIGHER education; STRUCTURAL equation modeling; LABOR turnover; INTENTION; MOMENTS method (Statistics)

This study examines the mediating role of employee engagement between its transformational leadership and turnover intention. Cross sectional research design was used and data were collected from 442 academic staffs of Ethiopian public higher education institutions. To test hypothesized model, structural equation modeling was performed using analysis of moment structure (AMOS 24.0). The result shows that transformational leadership has significant positive influence on employee engagement. Both transformational leadership and employee engagement has significant negative effect on employees' turnover intention. The study also discovered that the association between transformational leadership and intention to leave is partially mediated by employee engagement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Copyright of Public Organization Review is the property of Springer Nature and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)