The impact of leadership style on employee turnover and retention, and mediating job satisfaction and organization commitment

In light of competitive pressure, increasing financial performance and competitiveness in the organizations, employee’s retention plays an important role.This paper aims to review the existing literature and propose a model on employee’s retention for better understanding the critical factors that h...

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Main Authors: Ab Hamid, Kamal, Pahi, Munwar Hussain, Qureshi, Muhammad Asif, Arshad, Imran
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2014
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Online Access:https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/22414/1/ICBM%202014%201%209.pdf
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author Ab Hamid, Kamal
Pahi, Munwar Hussain
Qureshi, Muhammad Asif
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description In light of competitive pressure, increasing financial performance and competitiveness in the organizations, employee’s retention plays an important role.This paper aims to review the existing literature and propose a model on employee’s retention for better understanding the critical factors that helps to increase the employee’s retention.Extensive literature has been reviewed to find relationship between leadership style and employee’s retention and identified significant determinants of employee’s retention in an organization.Review of literature indicated that transformational leadership and transactional leadership has positive relationship with employee’s retention.Transformational leadership and transactional leadership have positive relationship with job satisfaction and organizational commitment. It also indicated that there is positive relationship exists between job satisfaction and organizational commitment. Moreover there is positive relationship exists between job satisfaction, organizational commitment and employee’s retention. From review of literature it is also highlighted that, there is dearth of literature on leadership styles and employee’s retention.This paper contributes in the existing knowledge by proposing mediating role of job satisfaction and organizational commitment between transformational leadership, transactional leadership and employee’s retention.The proposed model will help to better understand the relationship between transformational leadership, transactional leadership and employee’s retention.
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spelling uum-224142017-06-22T01:55:39Z https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/22414/ The impact of leadership style on employee turnover and retention, and mediating job satisfaction and organization commitment Ab Hamid, Kamal Pahi, Munwar Hussain Qureshi, Muhammad Asif Arshad, Imran HD28 Management. Industrial Management In light of competitive pressure, increasing financial performance and competitiveness in the organizations, employee’s retention plays an important role.This paper aims to review the existing literature and propose a model on employee’s retention for better understanding the critical factors that helps to increase the employee’s retention.Extensive literature has been reviewed to find relationship between leadership style and employee’s retention and identified significant determinants of employee’s retention in an organization.Review of literature indicated that transformational leadership and transactional leadership has positive relationship with employee’s retention.Transformational leadership and transactional leadership have positive relationship with job satisfaction and organizational commitment. It also indicated that there is positive relationship exists between job satisfaction and organizational commitment. Moreover there is positive relationship exists between job satisfaction, organizational commitment and employee’s retention. From review of literature it is also highlighted that, there is dearth of literature on leadership styles and employee’s retention.This paper contributes in the existing knowledge by proposing mediating role of job satisfaction and organizational commitment between transformational leadership, transactional leadership and employee’s retention.The proposed model will help to better understand the relationship between transformational leadership, transactional leadership and employee’s retention. 2014-08-18 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/22414/1/ICBM%202014%201%209.pdf Ab Hamid, Kamal and Pahi, Munwar Hussain and Qureshi, Muhammad Asif and Arshad, Imran (2014) The impact of leadership style on employee turnover and retention, and mediating job satisfaction and organization commitment. In: International Conference on Business Management (ICBM) 2014, 18-19 August 2014, Putra World Trade Centre (PWTC), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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