Mutual Trust and Employee Engagement: Impact of Women Leadership

Abstract

Employee engagement have direct impact on organizational performance. When employee are more engaged with the organization, they feel more attached with their work and overall development of the organization. Effective Leadership plays a vital role in employee engagement by developing mutual trust and understanding between leader and follower. The present study tried to find out the relation between women leadership characteristics and their impact on developing mutual trust between leader and follower to enhance employee engagement in the organization. The data has been collected from more than 200 employees where women are working on higher or higher-middle level positions. Linear regression model has been used to find out the effect of women leadership characteristics on mutual trust and understanding. The questionnaire has been used on five-point lie cart scale. The result showed that idealized influence of women leaders have positive impact on mutual trust whereas contingency reward does not have much impact on mutual trust and understanding. Individual motivation also have positive impact on mutual trust and understanding though individualized consideration does not have much impact on mutual trust and understanding.  Employee engagement shown positive correlation with mutual trust. Thus, overall, the study shows that women leadership characteristics have impact partially on mutual trust and understanding to enhance employee engagement.