Abstract Employee engagement has been at the center of attention for human resource personnel and researchers who stated that employee engagement can be a key driver of an organization's business success. Many researchers have found in recent researches that a transformational leadership style has a beneficial connection with employee engagement. Thus, this study aims to find the causal effect of perceived transformational leadership on employee engagement through the mediating role of leader’s emotional intelligence. We analyze the data from a sample of 338 full-time employees working in the ICT sector in Palestine using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and structural equation modelling (SEM) to test the hypothesis. Later, the bootstrapping analysis was conducted to confirm the mediation test in this study. The finding shows that transformational leadership style has a significant effect on employee engagement for the mediating role of emotional intelligence. The effect of transformational leadership on employee engagement was found to be completely mediated by leader’s emotional intelligence at work. Theoretically, this empirical study contributed to the new knowledge on the unique mediating effects of leader’s emotional intelligence in the relationship between transformational leadership and employee engagement in the Middle Eastern Region. Practically, this study has managerial implication in the area of organizational management, leadership and human resource management.

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变革型领导风格对员工敬业度的影响：领导者情绪智力的中介作用

摘要员工敬业度一直是人力资源人员和研究人员关注的焦点，他们指出，员工敬业度可以成为组织业务成功的关键驱动力。许多研究人员在最近的研究中发现，变革型领导风格与员工敬业度有着有益的联系。因此，本研究旨在通过领导者的情商的中介作用，发现变革型领导者对员工敬业度的因果关系。我们使用验证性因子分析（CFA）和结构方程模型（SEM）分析来自巴勒斯坦ICT行业的338名全职员工的样本数据，以检验假设。后来，进行了自举分析，以确认本研究中的中介测试。调查结果表明，变革型领导风格对员工参与度具有重要影响，因为它可以调节情商。发现变革型领导对员工敬业度的影响完全由领导者在工作中的情商来调节。从理论上讲，该实证研究有助于人们了解领导者的情商在中东地区变革型领导与员工敬业度之间的关系中所起的独特中介作用。实际上，这项研究在组织管理，领导力和人力资源管理领域具有管理意义。发现变革型领导对员工敬业度的影响完全由领导者在工作中的情商来调节。从理论上讲，这项实证研究有助于人们了解领导者的情商在中东地区变革型领导与员工敬业度之间的关系中所起的独特中介作用。实际上，这项研究在组织管理，领导力和人力资源管理领域具有管理意义。发现变革型领导对员工敬业度的影响完全由领导者在工作中的情商来调节。从理论上讲，这项实证研究有助于人们了解领导者的情商在中东地区变革型领导与员工敬业度之间的关系中所起的独特中介作用。实际上，这项研究在组织管理，领导力和人力资源管理领域具有管理意义。