Mr. Wais Wahab and Dr. Kalimullah Khan
Volume 4 Issue 4 | Dec 2021
DOI: 10.31841/KJEMS.2021.102
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Abstract
The review on employee engagement shows the importance of leadership and employees’ psychological empowerment. Literature on leadership taxonomies suggests the influential role of inclusive leadership in employee engagement. According to emerging literature, there is a scarcity of studies with empirical relationships to inclusive leadership and employee engagement in general, and in developing countries in particular. Grounded in social exchange theory, this study aims to study the relationship between inclusive leadership and employee engagement. Moreover, this study also investigates the mediating role of psychological empowerment in the relationship between inclusive leadership and employee engagement. To test the relationship between the mentioned variables, three hypotheses were developed and validated through quantitative methodology by employing structure equation modeling via SmartPLS software. For this purpose, data was collected from employees working in different organizations in Afghanistan. Data collection was made possible through an online data collection method. Links were shared among employees who were identified as students at Kardan University. A total of 223 responses were received and analyzed for the proposed relationships among constructs. The results of this study revealed that inclusive leadership significantly influences employee engagement. Findings also show that psychological empowerment mediates the relationship between inclusive leadership and employee engagement.
Keywords: Inclusive leadership, psychological empowerment, employee engagement, perceived responses, organizations in Afghanistan.