Title: Leadership Roles and Their Misalignment in the Workplace - A quantitative approach to analyzing employee engagement from a follower perspective.

Leadership is a concept that has been studied for centuries and there are multiple theories, concepts, and understandings on the subject. For this study, the focus has been to examine and understand the association of different levels of employee engagement (cognitive, physical, and emotional) in the theoretical framework of the five ”p’s” by Alvesson et al. (2017). This research is aimed to find out what the most preferred leadership role and employee need is to later analyze and find out if the different levels of employee engagement have a positive correlation. In this study, we found that there are clear correlations and there is a positive corelations on the preferred leadership role identified and employee engagement. We also established that there were clear preferences for leadership roles and traits the followers deemed more important than others. Lastly, we also found no significant relationship between the most important needs of the participants in this study on their work engagement.