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Promoting work engagement in public administrations: the role of middle managers’ leadership

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  • Alessandro Ancarani
  • Francesco Arcidiacono
  • Carmela Di Mauro
  • Maria Daniela Giammanco

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This study aims at exploring the role of middle managers’ leadership style in promoting work engagement in public administrations. Building on leadership theory, the work engagement literature and change management research, the study develops and empirically tests a model envisaging the impact of leadership on engagement as partially mediated by leaders’ support for key aspects of public sector reforms. An empirical study carried out on 2721 Italian local government workers shows that transformational leadership is positively linked to work engagement both directly and indirectly. Mixed results emerge for the other leadership styles.

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  • Alessandro Ancarani & Francesco Arcidiacono & Carmela Di Mauro & Maria Daniela Giammanco, 2021. "Promoting work engagement in public administrations: the role of middle managers’ leadership," Public Management Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 23(8), pages 1234-1263, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rpxmxx:v:23:y:2021:i:8:p:1234-1263
    DOI: 10.1080/14719037.2020.1763072
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    1. Badri Munir Sukoco & Beta Embriyono Adna & Zainul Musthofa & Reza Ashari Nasution & Dwi Ratmawati, 2022. "Middle Managers’ Cognitive Styles, Capacity for Change, and Organizational Performance," SAGE Open, , vol. 12(1), pages 21582440221, March.

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