Moderation Effect Of Meaningful Work On The Relationship Between Transformational Leadership And Work Engagement

摘要

Work engagement is crucial to an organization because if employee with a high work engagement will make the organization become a healthy organization. A healthy organization will affect the productivity and performance of its employee and their tendencies to out from their work. This study use 78 members of the North Sulawesi police force as the subject (96% men, 4% women). The instrument in this paper are Utretch Work Engagement Scale (UWES), Multifactor Leadership Questionaire (MLQ) and The Work and Meaning Inventory (WAMI). The result showed that there was significant positive relationship between Transformational Leadership and Work engagement. And then meaningful work's moderation model significantly explain in the amount of thirty one percent (R2=31%). A high perception in meaningful work can strengthen the relation between transformational leadership with work engagement but in low level of meaningful work can weaken these relations.