The influence of leadership style on employee talents in Hebron Municipality and Hebron Electricity Utility through job satisfaction رسالة ماجستير

Abstract

The aim of this research is to study the effect of leadership style on the talents of employees in the Hebron Municipality and the Hebron Electricity Utility and measure the role of job satisfaction as a mediator in this relationship. The design of the study is based on the quantitative method, as it used primary data collected through an administered questionnaire that included questions used in previous studies. The study's independent variable, leadership style, included four styles that represented the dimensions of the variable: the democratic, the autocratic, the transformational, and the transactional leadership style, while the dependent variable is employee talent. The study population consists of 1338 employees. A convenience sampling technique was used to represent the study population, 153 responses were received. To analyze the data collected and come up with the results, the descriptive method was adopted to analyze the demographic and personal factors through the SPSS tool, while to analyze the research variables and test the hypotheses; inferential analysis was adopted using the Smart-PLS statistical tool. Data analysis leads to the following results: The rate of application of the four leadership styles was moderate for each, and the democratic leadership style came in first place with a percentage of 66.8%, followed by the transformational style at 65%, then the transactional style with a percentage of 63%, and finally the autocratic style at 62.8%. The level of job satisfaction was high (76%), and so was the level of talents at 70.8%, which was represented through the level of performance. When analyzing the relationships between the variables to examine the hypotheses, the results were as follows: There is no significant direct effect of the four leadership styles used in the study on employees’ talents. Among the leadership v styles used, the only style that had an impact on job satisfaction was the democratic style, with a small effect. While it was found that Job satisfaction has a positive impact with a high effect on employees’ talents. As for the mediator, job satisfaction had a role as a mediator between the democratic leadership style and employees’ talents. Job satisfaction has no role as a mediator in the relationship between transformational, transactional, and autocratic leadership styles and employee’s talent. Recommendations were presented at the end of the study, the most important of which is the recommendation to enhance the application of the democratic leadership style, which appears to have significant positive impact on talent through job satisfaction.