Relationships Among Leaders' and Followers' Work Engagement and Followers' Subjective Career Success: A Multilevel Approach

Using a sample of 52 work teams (52 work team leaders and their 348 followers) in China, we investigated the influence mechanism of leaders’ work engagement on their followers’ work engagement and subjective career success. Multilevel structural equation model (MSEM) was applied to analyze the survey data. The results showed that leaders’ work engagement positively influenced their followers’ subjective career success, and this relationship was mediated by the followers’ work engagement. Implications of these findings, limitations, and directions for future research were discussed in the final part of the paper.