The Mediating Role of Job Satisfaction between Transformational Leadership and Organizational Commitment within the SMEs of Karachi

Rao Shahzaib Khan, Bismah Rao, Khurram Usman and Safia Afzal

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Abstract: The mediating role of job satisfaction between transformational leadership style and the organizational commitment within the SMEs in Karachi is the aim of this study. The correlation between variables is explored through quantitative methods. Total 190 respondents participated from 49 SMEs in Karachi. The results showed that job satisfaction has significant mediating role between variables of interest. This study confirmed that there is a positive strong correlation between transformational leadership and organizational commitment. Employees having high job satisfaction showed higher organizational commitment. Females scored more in comparison to males in terms of overall organizational commitment. However, males have high affective and normative while females have high continuance commitment.

Keywords: Organizational commitment; transformational leadership; job satisfaction; SMEs (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C0 L86 M1 M12 M13 M15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-05-08, Revised 2017-06-11
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Published in International Journal of Applied Business and Management Studies 1.2(2017): pp. 46-55

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