Leaders, Followers, and AI Technostress : A study on how leaders can mitigate AI implementation related technostress through transformational leadership and employees ’ engagement

Abstract: The purpous of this qualitative study is to spotlight some of the followers/employess technostress concerns associated with future AI implementation in one of the Swedish public centers. The methodology used in this research is a deductive approach and primary data was collected by conducting nine semi-structured interviews with followers /mployess working at a social care center in Växjö Municipality, Sweden. The findings support that transformational leadership style can be utilized to address followers´technostress fears in the understudy social care center through enhancing followers engagement. Conclusively, transformational leadership style interaction with followers enables leader to enhance followers engagement and mitigate technostress factors generated by AI implementation.