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Employees who reported to a leader in South Africa (N = 169) completed an online questionnaire which measured how they perceived their leader's role in health promotion and their own levels of work engagement and wellbeing. Linear regression analysis supported the hypotheses: Greater health promoting leadership was related to greater employee work engagement and this relationship was mediated by wellbeing. This suggests that leaders should take note of the importance of those leadership behaviours which promote employee's health and that it might be beneficial to train leaders to show these behaviours. The study findings suggest that health promoting leadership might not only benefit employees, but also the employing organisation due to its link with greater work engagement via greater mental and physical health. 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