The Charismatic Aspects of Transformational Leadership and their Prediction of the University teacher’s Work Engagement: the Mediating Effect of Trust in Leaders

Abstract

Purpose: This study investigates the effect that idealized influence and inspirational motivation of transformational leadership on work engagement of university teacher and the mediating role of trust in leaders between the relationships. 
 
 Theoretical framework: Job-Demand Resources Model (JD-R) and Social Exchange Theory (SET) were adopted in this study.
 
 Design/methodology/approach: The study population is the university teachers in seven public universities in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of China. The unit of analysis of this study is the individual university teacher from these seven public universities. With a stratified sampling and a cross-sectional design, 381 respondents are employed in the study for data collection by self-report questionnaires and the data is analyzed by Amos with structural equation modeling.
 
 Findings: The findings indicate that idealised influence has a positive effect on teachers' work engagement, inspirational motivation has a positive effect on teachers' work engagement, and teachers' trust in leaders mediates the relationship between idealised influence and teacher's work engagement, inspirational motivation, and teacher's work engagement.
 
 Research, Practical & Social implications: This study will be beneficial for future researchers and university administrative to aware the importance of trust in leaders in the workplace to improve the work engagement. Meanwhile, more psychological factors like psychological safety or psychological fulfillment on work engagement should be explored and tested. This finding also provides solutions to the improvement of teachers’ work engagement from a charismatic perspective of leadership to those universities located in less developed cities of China and the world. Leaders’ Charm matters and should be improved and make best use of it.
 
 Originality/value: The study provides valuable insight on the effect of charismatic aspects of transformational leadership on work engagement by introducing a phycological factor, trust in leaders, as a mediator between the relationship and providing a new perspective of illustration and reason by considering idealized influence and inspirational motivation as job resources.

Situación Laboral y Engagement Académico en Estudiantes Universitarios

“…En el marco de lo descrito la presente investigación se guio por el objetivo de determinar la relación entre la situación laboral y EA en estudiantes universitarios. et al (2004), definen el engagement como una actitud interna, mental positiva que se relaciona con el trabajo y que se caracteriza por el vigor, representa a los niveles de energía y resistencia mental, vinculado con el componente conductual; por la dedicación, referida a la elevada connotación laboral , conectado con el componente afectivo y la absorción, elevado estado de concentración e inmersión (Basir et al, 2023;Estrada-Araoz et al, 2023;Lin et al, 2023;Padmavathi, 2023); además por el componente cognitivo, el cual se preocupa por el funcionamiento efectivo y fortalezas del individuo frente a los episodios de tensión, angustia o estrés (Salanova & Llorens, 2008;. Así también, Martín (2008), conceptúa el engagement como la fuerza motivadora y el estímulo alturado de los alumnos por el aprendizaje, reconociendo, estos, lúcidamente el beneficio del mismo, lo cual los lleva a la aplicación efectiva de sus asignaturas, aportando todas sus habilidades y capacidades requeridas en el plano educativo, permitiendo detectar y medir qué tan involucrados están los estudiantes con lo que aprenden y viven dentro del ámbito escolar y cómo aprenden a desenvolverse en la vida estudiantil (Medrano et al, 2015).…”

Labor Situation and Academic Engagement in University Students

“…Research on EA sheds light on effective strategies to retain students in their programs et al (2004), define engagement as an internal, positive mental attitude that is related to work and characterized by vigor, represents levels of energy and mental resistance, linked to the behavioral component; by dedication, referred to the high labor connotation (Valero-Ancco et al, 2023), connected to the affective component and absorption, high state of concentration and immersion (Basir et al, 2023;Estrada-Araoz et al, 2023;Lin et al, 2023;Padmavathi, 2023); also by which cognitive component, is concerned with the effective functioning and strengths of the individual in the face of episodes of tension, distress or stress (Salanova & Llorens, 2008;. Likewise, Martín (2008), conceptualizes engagement as the motivating force and the high-level stimulus of students for learning, recognizing, these, lucidly the benefit of it, which leads them to the effective application of their subjects, contributing all their skills and capacities required in the educational plane, allowing to detect and measure how involved students are with what they learn and live within the school environment and how they learn to develop themselves in student life (Medrano et al, 2015).…”