Authentic leadership and employee engagement: understanding leader –employee outcome

The purpose of this paper is to synthesize relevant empirical literature to develop propositions and suggest a research agenda on the authentic leadership as predictor of employee engagement (job engagement, organization engagement). The approach to the research propositions was to explore the existing literature to discover areas where opportunities for further research exist. Specifically, we develop a model and testable propositions of the relationships between Higher order authentic leadership (self awareness, relational transparency, balanced processing, internalized moral perspective and employee engagement (job engagement, organization engagement). The target respondents for this research will be front line employees working in banking sector in Sudan. Furthermore, propositions are developed to guide future empirical research.