Moderating Role of Follower Characteristics With Transformational Leadership and Follower Work Engagement

By Weichun Zhu, Bruce J. Avolio, Fred Walumbwa. 2009

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Demography, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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Daily transactional and transformational leadership and daily employee engagement (2014, background): “For example, Zhu et al. (2009) found that transformational leadership predicted followers’ work engagement, especially for individuals with positive characteristics (e.g., active learning).”
How coworkers attribute, react to, and shape job crafting (2019, background): “…of leadership style and work engagement: followers with high (rather than low) self-monitoring capabilities were more likely to respond to their leader’s emotional expressions, which strengthened the relationship between leadership style and work engagement (Sosik & Diener, 2007; Zhu et al., 2009).”
Leadership and work engagement: Exploring explanatory mechanisms (2020, background): “Or when there are more positive follower characteristics (i.e. independent thinking, willingness to take risks, active learning, innovative), transformational leadership leads to more engagement (Zhu et al., 2009).”
Why and When Empowering Leadership Has Different Effects on Employee Work Performance: The Pivotal Roles of Passion for Work and Role Breadth Self-Efficacy (2018, background): “Zhu, Avolio, and Walumbwa (2009) provided indirect empirical evidence for this argument, demonstrating that high self-efficacy strengthened the positive relationship between transformational leadership and employee work engagement, a construct similar to harmonious passion as we discussed earlier.”
Factors Affecting Job Performance: A Review of Literature (2012, background): “On the other hand, Zhu et al. (2009) examined the relationship between transformational leadership and follower work engagement.”
How work engagement relates to performance and absenteeism: a meta-analysis (2021, background): “engagement by transformational leadership techniques and contingent reward (Breevaart et al., 2014; Zhu et al., 2009).”
The human side of leadership: Inspirational leadership effects on follower characteristics and happiness at work (HAW) (2020, background): “clearer when they are measured by means of followers' perceptions (Zhu et al., 2009).”