The mediating effect of job satisfaction on the link between leadership style and organizational commitment
The role of leaders in ensuring excellent organizational performance cannot be denied. It is important to ensure adequate motivation, suitable working environment, good compensation and efficient communication between employers and employees in order to promote excellent organization performance.Th...
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| author | Ishak, Yusniati Romle, Abd Rahim |
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| description | The role of leaders in ensuring excellent organizational performance cannot be denied.
It is important to ensure adequate motivation, suitable working environment, good compensation and efficient communication between employers and employees in order to promote excellent organization performance.Therefore, the purpose of this study is to determine the role of leadership styles play in public sector organization and how
they influence employee commitment to the organization and how job satisfaction mediates this relationship. Previous studies proved that the effect of leadership style on organizational commitment was mediated by job satisfaction.This study will be done in Election Commission of Malaysia (ECM), therefore the data will be gathered through questionnaires distributed to civil servants who attached at ECM .The questionnaire aims to investigate the the leadership style practised by, the relationships between and the impact of the variables on each other.The scales used were the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ), the Job Satisfaction Survey (JSS) and the Organizational Commitment Questionnaire (OCQ).The gathered data will be statistically analyzed with SEM-PLS. The leadership style known as transformational, transactional, and laissez-faire will be among the categories of leadership will be studied in order to determine which style is mostly being practiced by the civil servants.In related to that, this study intent to explore type of organizational commitment namely affective commitment, continuance commitment and normative commitment showed by them and job satisfaction as the mediating variable in a single model proposed. |
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| spelling | uum-142592015-05-19T09:24:39Z https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/14259/ The mediating effect of job satisfaction on the link between leadership style and organizational commitment Ishak, Yusniati Romle, Abd Rahim HD28 Management. Industrial Management The role of leaders in ensuring excellent organizational performance cannot be denied. It is important to ensure adequate motivation, suitable working environment, good compensation and efficient communication between employers and employees in order to promote excellent organization performance.Therefore, the purpose of this study is to determine the role of leadership styles play in public sector organization and how they influence employee commitment to the organization and how job satisfaction mediates this relationship. Previous studies proved that the effect of leadership style on organizational commitment was mediated by job satisfaction.This study will be done in Election Commission of Malaysia (ECM), therefore the data will be gathered through questionnaires distributed to civil servants who attached at ECM .The questionnaire aims to investigate the the leadership style practised by, the relationships between and the impact of the variables on each other.The scales used were the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ), the Job Satisfaction Survey (JSS) and the Organizational Commitment Questionnaire (OCQ).The gathered data will be statistically analyzed with SEM-PLS. The leadership style known as transformational, transactional, and laissez-faire will be among the categories of leadership will be studied in order to determine which style is mostly being practiced by the civil servants.In related to that, this study intent to explore type of organizational commitment namely affective commitment, continuance commitment and normative commitment showed by them and job satisfaction as the mediating variable in a single model proposed. AENSI Publisher 2015 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en cc4_by https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/14259/1/45-49.pdf Ishak, Yusniati and Romle, Abd Rahim (2015) The mediating effect of job satisfaction on the link between leadership style and organizational commitment. Australian Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences, 9 (4). pp. 45-49. ISSN 1991-8178 http://www.ajbasweb.com/ |
| spellingShingle | HD28 Management. Industrial Management Ishak, Yusniati Romle, Abd Rahim The mediating effect of job satisfaction on the link between leadership style and organizational commitment |
| title | The mediating effect of job satisfaction on the link between leadership style and organizational commitment |
| title_full | The mediating effect of job satisfaction on the link between leadership style and organizational commitment |
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| title_full_unstemmed | The mediating effect of job satisfaction on the link between leadership style and organizational commitment |
| title_short | The mediating effect of job satisfaction on the link between leadership style and organizational commitment |
| title_sort | mediating effect of job satisfaction on the link between leadership style and organizational commitment |
| topic | HD28 Management. Industrial Management |
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