Effect of Leadership on Employee Work Behaviour: A Theoretical Model’s Constitution and Analysis
Keywords:
Transformational leadership, work behaviourAbstract
The employees in the organization are having a major role to play apart from being an employee so is the leader who makes them feels comfortable in doing the job .This article aims to analyze the process of leadership influence the work behavior of employee. Based on the analysis of work engagement, organizational citizenship behaviour and other factors’ internal relationship and mechanism between leadership and employee work behaviour, we constitutes an innovative theoretical model. For this research paper past research survey were studied. This is a conceptual paper; the data collection optioned is from secondary data from the literature review of articles, journals, books, websites etc. Findings of the study show that there is significant and positive relation between transformational leadership and work behaviour. This study recommended that leaders have to adapt transformational leadership style in order to increases the level of affective work engagement and organizational citizenship behaviour in the employees.
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