Mediating role of organizational commitment among leadership styles and employee outcomes. An empirical evidence from telecom sector of Pakistan

Abstract

With ever increasing competition among todays’ organizations, stakeholders tend to be more concerned about probing the new ways of getting the employees more committed and high performers to stay competitive in the market. Nevertheless, role of leadership is an important determinent of subordinate’s performance and commitment. The present study is aimed at exploring the leadership styles as one of the anticeedent of employee’s job performance and satidfaction with organizational commitment playing the mediating role in this relationship. Data of 207 respondents was collected, working in telecommunication sector of Pakistan, by using convenient sampling technique. The data was then analysed by using correlation, regression and mediated regression analyses. The results revealed that organizational commitment do have the mediating effect on the relationship between transformational leadership style and job outcomes. However, mediation has not been proved in case of transactional leadership style which shows that employees were not found to be committed by transactional leadership style resultantly effecting their job outcomes. Hence the study will help the organizations to better understand the importance of leadership style in improving the performance of the employees as well as their level of satisfaction with the organization. Moreover numerous future directions have been suggested at the end with the assuption to further help the scholars to better comprehend new constructs and relationships in this field.