Leadership skills Creating Performance: Evidence from Palestine Exchange

Abstract

This research paper aims to investigate the impact of top manager’s lead ership skills in terms of (communication, teamwork / training, and vision) on the performance of corporations listed on the Palestine Exchange (PEX). Also, it explores the impact of firm’s size and firm's sector on the relation ship between top manager’s leadership skills and firm's performance. In or der to achieve the previous objectives, we selected a population of 49 cor porations listed on the PEX (4 top managers per corporation which is equal to 200 respondents). Questionnaires were distributed to 140 respondents (top managers). 132 questionnaires were received, which statistically con stitutes (94.3%) of the study sample. The findings show that there is a strong positive impact of top managers leadership skills on performance as well as differences vary according to the firm size. This study recommends that the listed corporations on the (PEX) markets attract top managers with high level of leadership characteristics. It is also recommended other re searchers to explore this research with different leadership characteristics.