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Article - Leadership and Work Engagement Effectiveness within the Technology Era Volume 14, Isu 21, Artikel No. 13761
There is rising awareness regarding the entrepreneurship evolution within underdeveloped
regions across the world and how it is affected by leadership initiatives regarding the work engagement
of young entrepreneurs; an underlining series of studies should be performed, considering the job
performance attributes specific to each given area. Entrepreneurship is a source of economic vitality
that must be subject to correctly performed leadership initiatives that need to strive for training young
entrepreneurs to understand and assess the strong and weak points of their business (idea) in order to
successfully compete with larger organizations. The current study aims for explaining the relationship
between leadership behavior (as transformational and transactional) and the underlying mechanism of
work engagement (with a special focus on job resources). The current research used a convenience sample
based on a voluntary response sampling method, engaging 508 young entrepreneurs from the NE region
of Romania. Results prove that transformational leadership and work engagement are active contributors
to the job performance. The current study is one of the few in the literature that enhances simultaneously
both transformational and transactional leadership, along with work engagement as predictors of job
performance, since previous research has only considered transformational leadership and disregarded
the role of transactional leadership in followers’ job performance.
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