The Relationship Between Employee Engagement And Transformational And Transactional Leadership Styles: Evidence From Jordan; Greater Amman Municipality

Employee Engagement has been at the forefront of focus for human resources researchers and scientists,who believe that Employee Engagement can be a key driver of business success. The purpose of this analysis is to identifythe association between Employee Engagement and Transformational and Transactional Leadership Styles. Data were collected and analyzed from a survey of 273 full-time employees who workin the Greater Amman Municipality at Jordan. The data was analyzed with different statistical tools (Mean, Correlation and Z-values) using SPSS. The findings exposed a significant positive association between bothTransformational and Transactional Leadership Stylesand Employee Engagement. It also found that Transformational Leadership is a better indicator of Employee Engagement when compared with Transactional Leadership