“…Because engaged employees experience positive emotions and great enthusiasm for their job, they are likely to discover opportunities to improve performance and take actions that contribute to job completion (Ho et al, 2011), extra-role behavior (Salanova et al, 2011;Lai et al, 2020;Vila-V azquez et al, 2023) and creativity and innovation (Aryee et al, 2012;Wang, 2020;LODJ 45,7 Vila-V azquez et al, 2020). Research by Fernando and Jayawardana (2024), Pourbarkhordari et al (2016) and Lai et al (2020) in samples of employees from various industries, a telecommunications firm and a sample of nurses, respectively, supported the mediating role of job engagement between transformational leadership and job performance. Jiatong et al (2022) and Park et al (2022), the former in a sample of hotel employees in China and the latter in employees of private firms in Korea, found that job engagement mediated both the link from transformational leadership to job performance and affective commitment.…”