| dc.description.abstract | The purpose of this study is to empirically investigate the effect of leadership styles
on employee engagement in Binh Duong City. In addition, the effect of employee
sociability on employee engagement and its moderate were also examined.
Quantitative approach was the major method used, with statistical techniques applied,
including factor, multiple regression, and path analyses. The unit of analysis was at
individual level with the sample size of 269 office employees of five dominant
industries in Binh Duong. The findings of this study indicated that the higher levels of
employee sociability, ethical leadership and visionary were positively associated with
the higher level of the employee engagement. In contrast, the transactional leadership
style had negatively correlated with the employee engagement. Besides that, this
thesis also found out that ethical leadership and visionary leadership positively
affected employee sociability. Based on the results of the data analysis, this research
recommended that in order to enhance engagement of employee, companies should
apply visionary leadership and ethical leadership, but should not employ transactional
leadership styles. Companies should also select employee who are high sociability in
order to have higher level of employee engagement. | en_US |
