Enhancing Work Engagement Through Leadership Behaviour A Study of School Teachers in the City of Hyderabad Telangana India

Abstract

The impact of Human Resource Management policies and practices on the organizational outcome has been an important subject for researchers. Studies across countries demonstrated the impact of various HR practices in general, work engagement and leadership practices in specific, on organizational effectiveness in any industry. Education sector is no exception to such studies and findings. Education plays the role of preparing students to achieve their future goals through providing engaging learning activities to them, for which schools need motivated, strong and engaged teachers. While researches on school leadership have demonstrated its influence on students cognitive and non-cognitive outcomes, work engagement of teachers has been found to be positively correlated to job satisfaction, performance and also student engagement. Thus, research shows leadership and employee engagement practices are among the most significant HR practices in schools that impact the teachers and students performances directly and indirectly. The current study is an attempt to understand if these two important HR practices are mutually correlated. The research studied eight leadership behaviours of school leaders and their correlation with work engagement of the teachers. These leadership behaviours are gaining trust, visionary leadership, participative management, giving autonomy, support in professional development, encouraging appreciative feedback, providing resources and motivating employees through rewards and recognition. The researcher has used a self-constructed questionnaire to study the leadership behaviour as perceived by teachers. The teacher engagement is measured through Engaged Teacher Scale. The study employed correlational analysis that found a significant positive correlation between each of the eight leadership behaviours and work engagement levels of teachers. newline newline newline