Title: A Study on Employee Engagement and Role of Effective Leadership

Abstract

As the economic outlook improves, a growing number of employees will set their sights on new job opportunities, creating a wave of employee turnover. The best way to combat the trend is to cultivate a leadership style that focuses on employee engagement. The extent to which members of the organization contribute in harnessing the resources of an organization equally depends on how well the managers or leaders of the organization understand and adopt appropriate leadership style in performing their roles as managers and leaders. Thus efficiency in resource mobilization, allocation, utilization and enhancement of organizational productivity depends, to a large extent, on leadership styles among other factors (Chuang, 2005). The purpose of the paper was to gain an understanding about Employee Engagement and Role of Effective Leadership. It has been found that for an organisation to succeed in today’s work environment,  leaders understands what it takes to create a  work culture that enables the full engagement of employees. Leaders create such a culture by focusing on the five key elements namely (a) Creating a culture of opportunity, (b) Creating a culture of personal accountability, (c) Creating a culture of validation, (d) Creating a culture of inclusion, (d) Creating a culture of community so that each individual employee feels the pride and takes ownership in the organisation and themselves. “To win in the marketplace you must first win in the workplace” (Douglas R. Conant). Effective leadership accompanied with managerial skills is a combination that can exceed employees in performing at a higher level.