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Engaged employees are those who are having passion towards their work, great sense towards their organization and drive innovation to further forward in organization. Leaders through their skills influence employees and motivate them for better performance, entailing this the present study seeks to investigate how Effective leadership leads to Employee Engagement. To gain insight into how to enhance employee engagement levels, this study investigated the relationship between employee engagement and six perceived leadership characterstics-Interpersonal Relations, Intellectual Operations, Behavioral and Emotional Stability, Ethical and Moral Strength, Adequacy of Communication, and Operations as a citizen. A sample of 60 school teachers in India residing in lucknow, completed the questionnaire survey, to collect the data Leadership Effectiveness Scale devised by Dr. Haseen Tajand Gallup's Q12 Questionnaire was employed which was analysed by using Mean, Standard Deviation, and Pearson Correlation. Overall, the results suggest that there is a significant correlation between Employee Engagement and the six Leadership Characterstics. Engaged employees also expressed disproportionately positive views of facets of the organization over which their leaders have significant control. In other words, organizations with leaders who help ensure, for example, that employee opinions count or that employees understand what is expected of them have a higher number of engaged employees than organizations without such leaders.
Keywords: effective leadership, employee engagement, teacher's
The Concept of Leadership
Ralph M. Stogdill (1948) holds that leadership is the process of influencing the activities of an organised group towards goal setting and goal achievement.
Leadership involves:
* Establishing a clear vision,
* Sharing that vision with others so that they will follow willingly,
* Providing the information, knowledge and methods to realize that vision, and
* Coordinating and balancing the conflicting interests of all members and stakeholders.
A leader steps up in times of crisis, and is able to think and act creatively in difficult situations. Unlike management, leadership cannot be taught, although it may be learned and enhanced through coaching or mentoring. Someone with great leadership skills today is Bill Gates who, despite early failures, with continued passion and innovationhas driven Microsoft and the software industry to success.
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. Dwight D. Eisenhower
The word...