Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the influence of transformational and transactional leadership styles on employees’ work engagement and the moderating effects of perceived organisational politics (POPS) in indigenous Ghanaian Banks.

Design/methodology/approach

The study uses a cross-sectional survey design and a quantitative approach to gather data from 430 respondents through the use of structured questionnaire. The covariance-based structural equation modelling was used to analyse the data with the aid of statistical package for social sciences and AMOS.

Findings

The analyses revealed that transformational leaders had a positive influence on employee engagement while transactional leadership did not have a significant influence on employee engagement. POPS also had no influence on employee engagement. Furthermore, POPS failed to moderate the relationship between leadership styles and employee engagement.

Practical implications

The findings of this study provide important practical implications for managers and policymakers in the banking sector of Ghana in engendering good leadership and political environments that will promote the engagement of employees.

Originality/value

The variables used in this study and the context, present interesting and fresh insights into the interplay between leadership styles, POPS and employee engagement, thereby contributing to the discourse on the leadership and human resource management literature. Furthermore, this study fills a gap in literature and challenges prior conceptions that negative political climates within the public and private banks is chiefly responsible for the recent troubles some banks have faced in Ghana’s banking sector.

中文翻译：

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组织政治是否会影响领导者与加纳银行家接触的能力？

目的

本文的目的是研究变革型和交易型领导风格对加纳土著银行员工工作投入的影响以及感知组织政治 (POPS) 的调节作用。

设计/方法/方法

该研究采用横断面调查设计和定量方法，通过结构化问卷从 430 名受访者那里收集数据。借助社会科学和AMOS的统计包，使用基于协方差的结构方程模型来分析数据。

发现

分析表明，变革型领导对员工敬业度有积极影响，而交易型领导对员工敬业度没有显着影响。POPS 对员工敬业度也没有影响。此外，POPS 未能调节领导风格和员工敬业度之间的关系。

实际影响

本研究的结果为加纳银行业的管理人员和政策制定者营造良好的领导力和政治环境以促进员工敬业度提供了重要的实际意义。

原创性/价值

本研究中使用的变量和背景，对领导风格、持久性有机污染物和员工敬业度之间的相互作用提出了有趣而新鲜的见解，从而有助于对领导力和人力资源管理文献的讨论。此外，这项研究填补了文献中的空白，并挑战了先前的观念，即公共和私人银行内部的负面政治气候是造成加纳银行业最近一些银行面临的麻烦的主要原因。