Affective Commitments Mediating the Effect of Transformational Leadership on Employee Engagement

ABSTRACT : Employee engagement is an inner feeling that employees really want to devote time to their workand significant dedication efforts as well as something exciting and something on which the employee is fullyconcentrated. This study aims to analyze the role of affective commitment to mediate the effect oftransformational leadership on the involvement of PT Warisan Eurindo employees with 84 respondents as asample through simple random sampling. Data collection using interviews and questionnaires were analyzedwith path analysis. The results showed that transformational leadership had a positive and significant effect onemployee engagement; affective commitment has a positive and significant effect on employee engagement;Transformational leadership has a positive and significant effect on affective commitment.

Keywords: transformational leadership, affective commitment, employee engagement