Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to propose a conceptual framework for ensuring employee championing behavior (ECB) during organizational change for business organizations in Bangladesh.
Design/methodology/approach
On the basis of previous literature, this paper proposed a framework for ensuring ECB during organizational change.
Findings
This paper proposed transformational leadership (TL), which enhances the championing behavior of the employee. In addition, valence, work engagement and trust in leadership act as potential mediators between TL and championing behavior. This paper also proposed organizational alignment (OA) as a potential moderator that influences ECB in the context of organizational change.
Research limitations/implications
This paper highlights numerous influential factors that enhance ECB. This proposed conceptual framework will be validated by the empirical evidence in future research.
Practical implications
This paper provides new insights for business leaders to understand the importance of ECB during organizational change. Moreover, this research underlined the effectiveness of valence, work engagement and trust in leadership and OA to nurture ECB in the time of organizational change, which helps managers of the business organizations to make efficient strategies to tackle organizational change.
Originality/value
This paper adopted Kurt Lewin’s change management theory and integrated with different factors associated with organizational change (TL, valence, work engagement, trust in leadership and OA) to propose a model to understand the mechanism of enhancing ECB in the context of change in Bangladesh’s business organizations.
During periods of transformation or in other uncertain and volatile business environments, high levels of work engagement-the extent to which employees identify with their role in an organization-enable leaders to implement change more effectively. A study conducted in Bangladesh's banking sector explores the influence of transformational leadership on work engagement and examines the mediating effect of trust in that relationship. Taking place in a context of significant organizational change, the study shows that a transformational leadership approach enhances work engagement. It also shows that the influence that a transformational leader has on the level of work engagement is subject to the degree of trust that employees have in their leader. The findings highlight the need to foster bonds between leaders and their followers and to pay close attention to the most critical antecedents of trust in leadership.
The research investigates the role of transformationalleadership in enhancing employee engagement during organizational change, and the individual and sequential mediating role of valence and trust in leadership. Based on cross‐sectional data from a survey of employees in Bangladesh's banking sector, the study uses structural equation modeling to test four hypotheses related to employee engagement and organizational change. The results showed that transformational leadership positively associated with employee engagement, and that both valence and trust in leadership individually and sequentially mediate the relationship between transformational leadership and employee engagement. The research contributes to the areas of organizational change management and human resource management by clarifying the impact of transformational leadership on employee engagement. It also provides practical guidance on improving employee engagement in Bangladesh's banking sector, and elsewhere, during periods of organizational change.
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