The Influence of LMX, Differential Leadership, and Proactive Personality on Work Engagement

The Influence of LMX, Differential Leadership, and Proactive Personality on Work Engagement

The concept of leader member exchange (LMX) has attention since its conception in the early 1970s, very little research has focused on differential leadership. To fill this gap, we investigated differences on employees' perceptions of LMX quality. Based on leaders tend to develop different quality dyadic relationships LMX, with different team members, which has several divergent consequences for work engagement. This study focuses on how LMX differentiation is related to personal initiative, and proactive personality interaction depending on group membership. This study will explore the effects of congruence of proactive personalities of leaders and followers on follower work engagement. Furthermore, we will examine LMX as a more distal predictor of employee work engagement and examines a sequential underlying mechanism to explain this relationship. Our study will explicitly examine differential leadership as a mediator in the relationship between LMX and employee work engagement.