Engaging leadership and followers' outcomes: incremental validity over transformational leadership
ISSN: 1746-5265
Article publication date: 29 July 2024
Issue publication date: 24 September 2024
Abstract
Purpose
The present study examines the incremental validity of engaging leadership in predicting five fundamental organizational outcomes (followers’ organizational commitment, work engagement, task performance, organizational citizenship behaviour and counterproductive work behaviour) over transformational leadership.
Design/methodology/approach
The study is cross-sectional in nature and a survey questionnaire was used for data collection. Data were collected from 402 workers in different fields. Hierarchical multiple regression was used in order to determine the incremental validity of engaging leadership.
Findings
Our results indicated that engaging leadership contributes additional variance over and above transformational leadership in predicting the five organizational outcomes.
Practical implications
The results of the study suggest that combining engaging leadership interventions with transformational leadership interventions may lead to better results.
Originality/value
The present study supports the empirical distinction of engaging leadership from transformational leadership, addressing possible concerns regarding construct redundancy.
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Acknowledgements
Funding: The work of Bogdan Oprea was supported by a grant of the Ministry of Education of Romania, UEFISCDI, project number PN-III-P1-1.1-PD-2021-0057.
Ethical statement: All procedures performed in the study were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and national research committee.
Informed consent: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants involved in the study.
Data availability: The datasets generated during and/or analysed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
Citation
Get, W., Oprea, B. and Miulescu, A. (2024), "Engaging leadership and followers' outcomes: incremental validity over transformational leadership", Baltic Journal of Management, Vol. 19 No. 4, pp. 385-401. https://doi.org/10.1108/BJM-09-2023-0358
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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