Leadership is a crucial factor for success in contemporary organizations, emphasizing the need for coordination between leadership and employee engagement to achieve business aims. Employees represent a primary competitive advantage for any organization, and the fundamental task of successful leaders is to unlock the full potential of each team member. This thesis examines the relationship among leadership styles and employee work engagement. In the first part of the thesis, the definition and significance of leadership are explained, highlighting characteristics of successful leaders, and defining specific leadership styles. The thesis additionally delineates the concept of work engagement, clarifies the methods for measuring work engagement, and expounds on the relevance of leadership styles to employee engagement. In the empirical part, data is collected through an anonymous, voluntary questionnaire distributed within selected organizations. The research investigated the direction and intensity of the correlation among the dimensions of the questionnaire of leadership styles and employee work engagement. This research results offered us understanding into the connection between the two variables, and based on the compiled data, a descriptive statistical analysis and correlation table studies were carried out. The correlation analysis was performed using the R Studio program. The study showed a positive correlation between the leadership styles and employee work engagement, and also the highest correlation between transformational leadership and employee engagement.