Transactional Academic Leadership Effect on Employee’s Engagement: the Mediating Impact of Extrinsic Motivation

Abstract

Employee’s engagement has been at the core of consideration for top management and scholars who stated that employee’s engagement can be a key driver of an organization's business success. Many scholars have found in recent researches that a transactional academic leadership approach has a beneficial connection with employees engagement. Therefore, this research oriented to investigate the connection of transactional academic leadership on employees engagement through the mediating role of figurehead extrinsic enthusiasm. Researchers examine the information from a sample of 338 elevated education employees working in the elevated academic institutes in Ethiopia by means of structural equation modeling (SEM) and confirmatory factor investigation (CFA) to examine the framed hypothesis. Afterward, the bootstrapping investigation was employed to verify the mediation examine in present research. The investigation manifested that transactional academic leadership approach had considered proficient impact on employee’s engagement for the mediating role of extrinsic enthusiasm. The impact of transactional academic leadership on employee’s engagement was found to be totally mediated by figurehead extrinsic enthusiasm. Hypothetically, present experiential investigation contributed to the novel knowledge on the exclusive mediating impacts of figurehead extrinsic motivation on the connections among transactional academic leadership and employee’s engagement in the Ethiopia. Practically, present research has administrative connotation in the field of governmental administration and leadership.