Transformational Leadership and Employee Performance: The Role of Identification, Engagement and Proactive Personality

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Table of Contents
Introduction..........................................................................................................................2
Research Area and Questions..........................................................................................2
Methodology....................................................................................................................4
Findings and Discussion..................................................................................................5
Conclusion...........................................................................................................................7
References............................................................................................................................8

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Introduction
Buil, Martínez and Matute (2019) in the article entitled “Transformational leadership and
employee performance: The role of identification, engagement and proactive personality”
attempts a discussion on the role and the impact of the transformational leadership on the
performance of the organizational employees of the organization. The article was published in
the 77th volume of the International Journal of Hospitality Management in the year 2019. The
title of the article provides the readers with a faint idea of the various factors that the article
discusses. The title of the article identifies the key terms that are used in the article and thus
piques the readers’ interest in the matter. The abstract of the article aptly summarizes the major
points that are discussed within the given article and thus helps the readers of the article to
develop a better idea regarding the article and its contents.
Research Area and Questions
The major areas of research that were undertaken by the concerned authors of the article
attempt to shed light on the relationship that exists among the frontline employee performance
within an organization and the transformational leadership that is followed within the
organization. The research majorly focusses on the impact of the transformational style of
leadership on the job performance of the given employees of the organization. Cai, Loon and
Wong (2018) state that the leadership styles that are followed within the business organization
are known to have a huge impact on the engagement of the employees within the given
organization. The major issues that are presented within the given organizations tend to deal with
the engagement of the given employees within the organization as well as deal with the ways in
which the adopted leadership styles affect the overall organizational performance. The article
further sheds light on the impact of the proactive personality on the transformational leadership

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that is developed within the given organization. According to the opinion of Hoch et al., (2018)
the proactive personality of the concerned leaders tends to have a moderating effect on the
transformational leadership that is presented within the organization. Banks et al., (2016) further
state that the implementation of the transformational leadership within the organization tend to
have a significant effect on the identification of the issues that are related to the employee
engagement within the company as well as the behaviors that they demonstrate in terms of the
organizational citizenship. The major focus of the article lies in the development of the
researches in order to deal with the issues that are presented in the implementation of
transformational leadership within the company. The article tends to discuss the various factors
that are related to the outcomes of the implementation the transformational leadership within the
organization. The article aims to bridge the research gap of the differences that existed within the
employee engagement due to the implementation of the transformational leadership within the
company. The article is further observed to have been dealing in the development of the
psychological relationship that exists within the transformational leaders as well as the concerned
employee who have been serving the company. The researcher is observed to have been
maintaining a clarity in the development of the issues that are implemented within the given
organization. The article tends to discuss certain issues that are related to the development of the
organizational performance as a whole. The study also focusses on the development of the
organizational citizenship behavior as is demonstrated within the given business organizations.
The author of the article is found to have been majorly interested in the development of the
research hypothesis that have explicitly been mentioned all throughout the given company. The
article investigates the development of relationship that exists within the transformational