Effectiveness of leadership style on employee engagement

Leadership is now a feature theme in the matrix of corporate settings and dynamic polity. In immediate corporate domain the leadership complication is responsible for the rise and fall of the establishments. It serves as a dual focused approach which encircles individual and group, as a whole. It now works as a compass for organization commitment which shell out direction and dimension of organization. An institution cannot be built without leadership. It provides resources, processes, tools, methods and vision, requisite for strong foundation of employee engagement. The greatest obstacle for organization commitment is selection of right style of leadership. The organizations get confused over and over again in alternatives of transformational and transactional leadership. Former can be understood as long term outcome and latter as short term output. This situation in the organization and, in other various human terrains has attracted attention over the past few years. This paper attempts to inspect the relationship of leadership and organizational commitment with transformational and transactional style of leadership in an organization. Many studies had been done to examine the impact of leadership style on organization commitment in an organization. Almost nominal studies are performed in relation to formal institutes in India. This gap in knowledge is very crucial and decisive to welfare of right thinking of people. My paper addresses the correlation of leadership influence of organization commitment in formal institutes in India. Specifically, I will gauge the influence with two instruments; Transformational and Transactional style of leadership. The paper will conclude with the emphasis on the right choice of leadership style influencing the positive association between employee engagement and organization commitment in formal institutes in India.