Impact of Leadership Style on Employee Engagement in context with Education Sector specifically Business Management Institutes

The leader is like a cherry on the cake, who leads the faculty members towards the development of students and institution. The faculty members are having major responsibilities to play apart from being an employee so is the leader who makes them feels comfortable in doing the job.

The work style of the leader makes or breaks the employee to stay or give up from the job. There has been an old credence that employees leave the immediate supervisor and not the organization which indicates that employee engagement is having more influence on the leadership style.

The increasing competition has pressed the institutions to exploit their available resources as a way of achieving competitive advantage.

Leadership is critically important because it has a huge impact on the condition of the organization. Data was collected from 25 business management institutions in UP West Region specifically in Agra and Mathura.

The analysis finds that Leadership Style directly affects employee engagement and the Institutional Performance. This result suggests that an increasing style of leader who commit to stay with their college, work toward institutions’ target success, focus on achieving goals, and also work toward the success of institutional change, appears to influence the value of institutional performance as well as the engagement levels of employees.

The purpose of this research paper was to expand an understanding of leadership's style with regard to employee engagement. An Exploratory as well as Descriptive research methodology was utilized to answer the research objective.

A sample of 25 Head of Departments and 175 Faculty Members participated in the study as respondents. Two Questionnaires, Faculties Questionnaire on Head of Department Leadership Styles and Head of Department's Questionnaire on Leadership Styles were used to collect data from the respondents.

The data obtained using the instruments were analyzed involving percentages. The findings of the study would be a useful resource for the business management institutions.

The institutions have changed their views and have added faculty development and Management Development Programme as a strategic business priority to set them apart from their competition. With this shift, institutions are adding more value to their faculty members and their skill sets. Institutions use various measures in order to achieve some of their goals, such as competitive advantage, retention, and increase productivity and it has its impact on the Engagement.

To accomplish their goals, the institutions must move beyond employee motivation strategies and towards increasing the levels of employee engagement. Having engaged, the faculties have become crucial in a time where the institutions look to their employees to take initiative, bring creativity, and be proactive with solutions to current teaching methodology. The leaders are in the position to increase their employees’ (faculty) engagement levels and do more than just motivate them. The purpose of this paper is to explore what type of leadership style is more conducive to increasing the levels of employee (faculty) engagement.