A Conceptual Approach on How Leadership Mindsets Affect Employee Engagement and the Mediating Role of Organizational Climate

Leadership as a phenomenon has been explored and explained in the context of organizations, and there is unanimous agreement in research that leadership remains an integral factor in every organization, which, in other words, can be argued as the foundation of every organisation and a continual organisational activity that cannot be discarded. Thus, different research has been conducted with the drive to actualize factors that drive effective leadership. Accordingly, different leadership theories, styles, and models have been identified in an effort to conceptualise and demonstrate effective leadership. While most of the studies has failed to reveal an innate dimension of leadership that could contribute to the knowledge of effective leadership, recent theorists have revealed the intrinsic phenomenon of leadership as a mindset. Since leadership exists primarily because of followers in an establishment. This conceptual paper made an informative attempt to explore how these mindsets form the cornerstone of the leadership attributes, styles, and worldviews of organisational leaders. The study specifically revealed how these mindsets of leaders relate to organisational climate and general employee emotional, physical, and cognitive engagement. The study concluded by proposing that leadership mindsets affect employee engagement and that this cause-and-effect relationship is mediated by organisational climate.

Keywords: Leadership, Mindset, Growth, Fixed, Inward, Outward, Organizational Climate and Employee Engagement.