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The Mediating and Moderating Role of Job Satisfaction in the Leadership Behaviour and Work Engagement Relationship

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  • Akinlawon O. AMOO

    (Management College of Southern Africa (MANCOSA), South Africa)

  • Shamila SINGH

    (Management College of Southern Africa (MANCOSA), South Africa)

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The aim of the present study was to investigate job satisfaction as a moderator of the relationship between leadership behaviour and trainee work engagement. The study was conducted in an artisan training academy located in the East of Johannesburg. Data was collected from the entire population of 150 employed trainees in the academy using: (i) a self-designed demographical data questionnaire; (ii) the Harris and Ogbonna (2001) 13-item leadership behaviour questionnaire (iii) the Utrecht work engagement scale (UWES) developed by Schaufeli et al. (2002), and (iv) the single global rating for job satisfaction developed in 1990 by Allen and Meyer. Hierarchical multiple regression analysis were conducted in a census study of 150 trainees. Results showed that work engagement is significantly affected by leadership behaviour, and job satisfaction mediated and moderated the leadership behaviour – work engagement relationship.

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  • Akinlawon O. AMOO & Shamila SINGH, 2018. "The Mediating and Moderating Role of Job Satisfaction in the Leadership Behaviour and Work Engagement Relationship," Expert Journal of Business and Management, Sprint Investify, vol. 6(1), pages 12-18.
    • Handle: RePEc:exp:bsness:v:6:y:2018:i:1:p:12-18
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    1. Silvia A. Nelson & Omar Shraim, 2014. "Leadership behaviour and employee engagement: a Kuwaiti services company," International Journal of Human Resources Development and Management, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 14(1/2/3), pages 119-135.
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    • O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
    • M10 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - General

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