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COVID-19 and Work Engagement: Understanding the Nexus of Leaders Emotional Intelligence, Self-efficacy and Resilience in the Banking Sector of Bahrain

The current study attempted to examine the association between leaders` emotional intelligence and work engagement, followed by the mediation of self-efficacy and resilience Structural equation modeling using Smart PLS 3 0 was employed to examine these relationships amongst the employees of five major banks in Bahrain The bootstrap results indicated the significance of leaders` emotional intelligence towards enhancing employees` work engagement Accordingly, the study also found support for the mediation hypotheses as self-efficacy and resilience significantly mediated the association between leaders` emotional intelligence and work engagement The results have asserted that critical times such as the COVID-19 Pandemic, can be responsively managed through leaders` emotional intelligence to enhance employee immersion, passion, vigor at work The results have also asserted that leaders` emotional intelligence has a significant contribution towards boosting employees` psychological resourcefulness, thus making them high in efficacy and resilience, which further induces higher engagement levels