International Journal of Management and Commerce Innovations ISSN 2348-7585 (Online) Vol. 7, Issue 2, pp: (1109-1113), Month: October 2019 - March 2020, Available at: www.researchpublish.com
The Mediating Effect of Organizational Commitment on Relationship between Leadership Styles (Transformational and Transactional Leadership) and Organizational Performance among Telecommunication Companies employees in Yemen 1
Mohammed Abdulrahman Mufadhal, 2Mazen Mohammed Farea Al-Madinah International University Mofdal2015@gmail.com, mazen.farea@mediu.edu.my
Abstract: This study aimed to identify the relationship between (transformational leadership and transactional leadership) organizational performance of workers. It also aimed to examine the impact of the mediator (organizational commitment) on (transformational leadership and transactional leadership. The study population included workers from the Public Telecommunication Corporation, located in Sana'a, Yemen. The researcher used Raosoft to determine the required sample; the sample size was (365), which was randomly selected; and the questionnaire was to distribute to 365 workers, from which 262 were retrieved. The study reached the following results. There is no relationship between work Transformational leadership and Organizational Performance. There is a strong relationship between work Transactional leadership and Organizational Performance. There is a strong relationship between work Transformational leadership and Organizational Commitment. There is a relationship between work Transactional leadership and Organizational Commitment in telecommunication companies in Yemen. However, there is a relationship between Organizational Commitment and Organizational Performance in telecommunication companies in Yemen. In addition, the influence of Transactional leadership and Transformational leadership on Organizational Performance is mediated by Organizational Commitment in telecommunication companies in Yemen. The study reached multiple recommendations, the most important of which are: In the future, researchers should expand their studies to include employees in private organizations. Researchers should include new variable that may have an impact on employees' performance in Yemen, such as job security, work flexibility, job defense, Researchers should conduct a study using the same variable of the current study but after the war ends in Yemen in order to compare between employees' performance during and after war in organizations. Keywords: Transformational leadership, Transactional leadership, Organizational performance in Telecommunication Companies in Yemen.
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1. INTRODUCTION This article discusses the background of the study, in which the author has tried to highlight the link between leadership styles namely transformational leadership, transactional leadership, organizational commitment, and organizational performance. In addition, the link in the reference of the telecommunication sector of Yamen is discussed in the section 1.1. Leading to general problem disused in section 1.1., section 1.2 has shed light on the specific issues related to
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