The Purpose of this study was to analyze the structural relationships among the variables of
Managers’ Emotional Leadership, Salesperson’s Positive Psychological Capital, Burnout, and Work
Engagement. Data from 407 salesperson in insurance companies had been gathered and analyzed through
structural equation modeling and SPSS in order to verify the hypothesized research model. The results
showed direct and mediating effects among variables as follows. First, emotional leadership was found to
have a direct effect on positive psychological capital, yet on neither work engagement nor burnout. And
positive psychological capital had a direct effect on work engagement positively and on burnout
negatively. Burnout had a negatively direct effect on work engagement. Second, positive psychological
capital played as a mediator in the relationship between emotional leadership and work engagement. And
burnout was a mediator on the relationship between positive psychological capital and work engagement.
In short, even though emotional leadership did not directly impact on work engagement and burn-out,
it affected emotional leadership indirectly through the mediating effect on the positive psychological
capital. It is verified that the positive psychological capital was important to improve work engagement
and it can be reinforced or undermined by emotional leadership and burnout. Therefore, in terms of
sales training for salesperson’s capacity development perspective, it proposed to comprehensively consider
emotional leadership, positive psychological capital, burnout and work engagement. In addition,
organizational attention and support are required for developing and maintaining such capacity.