The Mediating Effects of Organizational Commitment on Leadership Styles and Employee Performance in SOEs in Ghana: A Structural Equation Modeling Analysis

Francis Donkor, Zhou Dongmei and Isaac Sekyere

SAGE Open, 2021, vol. 11, issue 2, 21582440211008894

Abstract: The primary purpose of this study is to investigate the mediating effects of organizational commitment on leadership styles (transformational, transactional and laissez-faire) and subordinate performance in state-owned enterprises in Ghana. The study adopted the partial least squares structural equation model (PLS-SEM) to test the hypotheses model. The model has been tested with 330 respondents. The data have been validated by the use of measurement modeling to determine internal consistency reliability (CR) and convergent validity (CV) with SmartPLS 3.0. The results indicate that organizational commitment mediates transformational and laissez-faire leadership. It has also been found that transformational and laissez-faire leadership have a statistically positive and significant relationship with job performance at p

Keywords: leadership; transformational leadership; transactional leadership; laissez-faire leadership; organizational commitment; employee performance; public sector organizations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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