Purpose

This paper aims to evaluate how transformational leadership can increase job embeddedness in their employees that persuade them to stay in their organization and how this relationship is contingent upon the job characteristics.

Design/methodology/approach

Sample of 328 useable responses was available for analysis. Questionnaires were distributed to the employees who are working in different Pakistani organizations. Regression analysis was used to test for hypotheses.

Findings

The findings support that there is a significant impact of transformational leadership for shaping job embeddedness, and the results endorsed the role of job characteristics as a moderator in describing the relationship of transformational leadership and job embeddedness. Transformational leaders would motivate employees to work together in productive manners in challenging work settings.

Originality/value

This paper makes three key contributions to the literature on job design. First, this inquiry shows that a strong link does exist between transformational leadership in creating organizational job embeddedness. Second, it highlights how job characteristics of highly challenging work settings may shape employees’ job embeddedness. Third, this paper offers a novel perspective in leadership research by incorporating high challenging work setting (i.e. job characteristics) as moderator. Managers may get new insight by opting for transformational leaders' attributes and concentrating on high challenging work settings for creating embeddedness in employees to prolong their stay with the job and firm.

中文翻译：

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探索变革型领导对工作嵌入的影响：工作特征的调节作用

目的

本文旨在评估变革型领导如何提高员工的工作嵌入感，说服他们留在组织中，以及这种关系如何取决于工作特征。

设计/方法/方法

328 个可用响应的样本可供分析。调查问卷分发给在不同巴基斯坦组织工作的员工。回归分析用于检验假设。

发现

研究结果支持变革型领导对塑造工作嵌入性有显着影响，结果支持工作特征在描述变革型领导和工作嵌入性关系中的调节作用。变革型领导者会激励员工在具有挑战性的工作环境中以富有成效的方式一起工作。

原创性/价值

本文对工作设计方面的文献做出了三个主要贡献。首先，这项调查表明，变革型领导在创造组织工作嵌入性方面确实存在很强的联系。其次，它强调了极具挑战性的工作环境的工作特征如何影响员工的工作嵌入。第三，本文通过将高挑战性的工作环境（即工作特征）作为主持人，为领导力研究提供了一个新的视角。管理人员可以通过选择变革型领导者的属性并专注于高挑战性的工作环境以在员工中建立嵌入性以延长他们在工作和公司中的停留时间，从而获得新的洞察力。