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Objectives. The purpose of this qualitive study was to find out what practical actions leaders use to increase employees’ work engagement. The research question was ’’How can leader promote employee’s work engagement?’’. Earlier studies concerning work engagement show that work engagement improves individual’s work well-being, work performance and the desire to work for the organization. Job resources and personal resources of work affect essentially how work engagement develops. The leader can have a major positive impact on individual’s work engagement. Methods. This study was conducted as a qualitive case study and the data of this study was collected by semi-structured theme interviews. Five leaders participated in this study and the method used was a group interview. The questions concerned the resources, work engagement and leadership. The role of theory was directional in the analysis. Especially the JR-D model was applied in the analysis. Results and conclusions. The results of this study were categorized into job resources and individual resources. This study showed that leaders use many different actions to promote employees’ experience of work engagement. Through these actions leader can contribute to the factors of personal resources and job resources. Leaders used actions to improve employees’ feeling of competence, autonomy and relatedness. Leaders also used these actions to raise trustful and fair work climate where employees feel safe. This study could be beneficial on the field of work development since it shows the importance of the leader and the positive consequences promoting the work engagement.