Managerial Leadership: Enhancing Employee Engagement for High Performance

Running head: Managerial leadership
Managerial leadership

Managerial leadership
‘Increasing level of employee engagement is a key responsibility of leadership
at every level and of critical importance to sustaining high performance in
organizations by releasing intellectual, social and emotional capital for the
benefit of all stakeholders.’
According to the statement stated above, it can be said that leadership helps to enhance
employee engagement in workplace at all levels. Also, it has a great role in increasing overall
performance level in the companies by focusing on intellectual, social and emotional capital
which is beneficial for the stakeholders. It is evaluated that employee engagement plays a great
role in enhancing overall productivity of company.
Employee engagement is considered as a workplace approach that shows dedication and
energy of employees towards the activities of the company. In recent scenario, it has been
evaluated that employees who are engaged in activities are more productive and also dedicated
towards company. Employee engagement is necessary so that overall productivity can be
enhanced (Albrecht et al., 2015). Therefore, it has been seen that leadership is one of the factors
that is important to enhance employee engagement in workplace.
It has been seen that due to globalization, many organizations are bringing modification
in their structure. Many companies are also emphasizing on adding more value to their
employees so that they can give their best towards operations or the activities assigned to them.
Leaders are the individuals in the company who have set tone and culture. Leadership is a
process that can influence the people so that goals can be achieved. It is the responsibility of the
leader to influence the employees so that they can accomplish goals and objectives effectively.
Leaders try to motivate the employees and create proper relations so that it can be easy for the
employees to focus on the activities which are assigned to them. Without proper leadership, it is
not possible to enhance employee engagement in the workplace (Antonakis and Day, 2017).
Leaders are considered as the supporter of employees as they give direction to them so that
they can consider right path. Leaders also focus on communicating the policies and plans to
their employees so that positive outcome can be achieved. The major role played by the
leader is to motivate the employees in context to economic and non-economic rewards. It
has been analyzed that when rewards are offered to the employees the give their best
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Managerial leadership
towards the overall goals of the company and it can only be done by leaders. Employee
engagement can take place when there is proper motivation and guidance given by leaders
(Bolman and Deal, 2017).
In every level leadership is important and the same applies to employee engagement. In
each and every level of the organization employee engagement should be there so that it can be
simple to complete the task efficiently. Effective Leadership helps to maximize the overall
performance of the employees. In the organization, leaders are the one who enhances employee
engagement in the company (Habermas, 2015). By enhancing employee engagement the
employees will able to communicate in an effective manner. The process of communication can
be simplified if leaders are supportive as it can be evaluated that they can share their views and
opinion in an easy way (Fairhurst and Connaughton, 2014).
(Source: Reilly, 2014).
There are many factors that help to enhance the performance of the employees. It has
analyzed that it is important to consider many factors by focusing on intellectual, social and
emotional capital. It is the responsibility of the leaders to focus on intellectual factor so that
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