Leadership Style and Organization Performance

Khan, Dr. Rahul (2016): Leadership Style and Organization Performance.

Abstract

Organizations face many challenges, but one of the greatest ones is ensuring the wellbeing of its employees. Understanding association between job satisfaction, employee organizational commitment, organizational culture, and leadership is important because it assists in creating an efficient and motivated workforce and allows for an organization to achieve overall goals & objectives (Amburgey, 2005). Effective Leadership, employee job satisfaction, and organizational commitment are the three important facets for organizational success. The effective leader provides guidance to employees, gives them direction towards the achievement of desired goals, as a result employee with high job satisfaction exert more effort in the completion of work [or achieving success and thus are more committed towards organization (Voong, Lo, Ngui, & Ayob, 2010). Many aspects of leadership style and organizational commitment have been studied in the paper

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: Transformation Leadership, Transaction Leadership, Organization Performance
• Subjects: M - Business Administration and Business Economics ; Marketing ; Accounting ; Personnel Economics > M0 - General; M - Business Administration and Business Economics ; Marketing ; Accounting ; Personnel Economics > M0 - General > M00 - General; M - Business Administration and Business Economics ; Marketing ; Accounting ; Personnel Economics > M1 - Business Administration

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