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Transformational leadership fosters employee thriving at work through the mediating effects of task focus and exploration, and these behavioral pathways are strengthened by heedful relating. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.INCREMENTAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

What question did this study set out to answer?

To examine whether agentic work behaviours mediate the relationship between transformational leadership and employee thriving, and whether heedful relating strengthens these pathways.

September 6, 2026Evidence-based HRM a Global Forum for Empirical Scholarship

How transformational leadership fosters thriving at work: the roles of agentic work behaviours and heedful relating

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TBTapas Bantha SMSubhendu Kumar Mishra SKSwetha Kengam

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Cross-sectional survey reveals transformational leadership fosters thriving via task focus and exploration in organizational employees, indicating that heedful relating amplifies these benefits.

Key Points

To examine whether agentic work behaviours mediate the relationship between transformational leadership and employee thriving, and whether heedful relating strengthens these pathways.
Conducted a cross-sectional survey of 310 employees across manufacturing and service organizations based in India.
Tested mediation and moderated mediation hypotheses based on the socially embedded model of thriving using structural equation modelling.
Transformational leadership was positively related to task focus and exploration, both of which partially mediated its positive association with employee thriving at work.
Heedful relating significantly strengthened the direct relationships between both agentic behaviours and thriving, magnifying the overall indirect effect of transformational leadership.

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Bantha et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a9d1e8328139818eab215e5 https://doi.org/10.1108/ebhrm-01-2026-0041

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September 6, 2026Evidence-based HRM a Global Forum for Empirical Scholarship

How transformational leadership fosters thriving at work: the roles of agentic work behaviours and heedful relating

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Authors

TBTapas Bantha SMSubhendu Kumar Mishra SKSwetha Kengam

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Overview

Cross-sectional survey reveals transformational leadership fosters thriving via task focus and exploration in organizational employees, indicating that heedful relating amplifies these benefits.

Key Points

To examine whether agentic work behaviours mediate the relationship between transformational leadership and employee thriving, and whether heedful relating strengthens these pathways.
Conducted a cross-sectional survey of 310 employees across manufacturing and service organizations based in India.
Tested mediation and moderated mediation hypotheses based on the socially embedded model of thriving using structural equation modelling.
Transformational leadership was positively related to task focus and exploration, both of which partially mediated its positive association with employee thriving at work.
Heedful relating significantly strengthened the direct relationships between both agentic behaviours and thriving, magnifying the overall indirect effect of transformational leadership.

Cite This Study

Bantha et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a9d1e8328139818eab215e5 https://doi.org/10.1108/ebhrm-01-2026-0041

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