Leadership Styles on Employee Performance Among Supervisors of Petroleum Retailing Sector in Jordan: Employee Engagement as a Mediator

Abstract

The purpose of this article aims to examine perceptions of employee engagement (EE) among petroleum retailing sector supervisors as a possible mediator between leadership styles (transformational, transactional, and laissez-faire) and employees’ performance (EP). We proposed a mediation model and postulated that leadership styles (LS) could increase perceptions of EE, which theoretically correspond to the three styles of leadership: transformational leadership (TSFL), transactional leadership (TSCL), and laissez-faire (LF). Subsequently, EE is linked to leadership styles and EP in keeping the extant body of social exchange theory (SET) research. In this study, a model developed based on survey research is used. Data was collected from 425 supervisors in the petroleum retailing sector in Jordan. The partial least squares (Smart-PLS) analysis is used to run the measurement and structural models. The findings show that leadership styles (transformational and transactional) are significantly and positively related to EP. In addition to the non-significantly relationship between LF leadership and EP. On the other hand, EE is not mediate the relationship between TSCL and EP.