Transformational Leadership and Employee Engagement from the HRD Perspective

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to understand how transformational leadership and employee engagement, which is the area of recent concern in HR, is connected to the perspective of HRD. In particular, we have identified how we can relate to the training and development(T&D), career development(CD), organizational development(OD) perspectives, which are important areas of HRD. To do this, this study was conducted through the integrated literature review method, and for this purpose, the existing researches on transformational leadership and employee engagement, and HRD’s areas, such as T&D, CD, and OD, were attempted to integrate together. This paper first identifies the definitions, conceptualizations, major features, antecedents, and consequences of transformational leadership and employee engagement, and then, the relationship of transformational leadership and employee engagement, and a HRD area; T&D, CD, and OD. As a result, transformational leadership and employee engagement are closely related to each of the three areas of HRD, T & D, CD, and OD, and research implication was proposed at the practical and academic level in human resource development.