Examine the Relationship between Leader's Emotional Intelligence and Internal Communication of Organization on Employee Engagement

- Currently, the human resources hold a main role or can even be referred to as an asset of the company in gaining success and achieving goal. In fact, there are many organizations facing obstacles in managing their human resources, especially in maintaining the spirit and motivating the human resource. In order to deal with the problem, it would be better if a leader has emotional intelligence. Emotional management carried out by the leader will directly impact to the harmonious communication relationships in the organization. This will help employees in developing a sense of trust and loyalty to the company which will directly impact to the employee engagement. This study aims to determine the effect of leader’s emotional intelligence on employee engagement with internal communication of organization as a mediator variable. This study involved 1006 respondents selected using convenience sampling with a quantitative approach and the type of explanatory research. The research questionnaire is distributed online, hypothesis testing is carried out using the path analysis method through the Sobel test. In conclusion, this study shows that there is a positive and significant influence between the variables of the emotional intelligence of leaders on employee engagement with the variable internal communication of organization as a mediator variable.