Leadership Theories

Grateful leadership: Literature Review on Selected Leadership TheoriesAuthor:AffiliationCourse Code: Course title Instructor DateGrateful leadership: Literature Review on Selected Leadership TheoriesEmployee engagement is an important factor affecting employee retention (Rafiq et al. 2019, Bhattacharya, 2015), and can be nurtured through grateful leadership style. This aspect of engagement is however generally founded in the development of trust by employees or the development of job satisfaction factors such as autonomy or motivation. According to Umlas (2020), grateful leadership provides a platform for employee motivation through genuine acknowledgment. The absence of such factors hampers employee retention and results in employee turnover that leads to a loss of well-trained employees (Rafiq et al. 2019). Generally, leaders lacking in the understanding of the import of employee engagement often fail to effectively apply their intellect and experiences. This in turn hampers job satisfaction by impeding the development of trust, autonomy, and motivation and often results in high employee turnover.Grateful leadership focuses on building relationships with followers or employees. However, the value of the relationship-building process was rarely covered by most of the early leadership