The Role of Inclusive Leadership Style in Fostering Employee Performance: A Mediating Role of Workplace Dignity

Abstract

Purpose- The current research aims to inspect the impact of inclusive leadership on increasing employee performance in the Hail health cluster to inspect the part of workplace dignity as a arbitrator between employees' inclusive leadership style and performance. Design/Methodology/Approach- This study took a model of 364 workers in the Hail health cluster in Saudi Arabia. A well-structured questionnaire is developed on the base of previous literature for the collection of data. SmartPLS is used for extracting the results. Findings- This study establishes that the inclusive leadership style knowingly influences employee performance in the Hail health cluster. Inclusive leadership enhances workplace dignity; the highly dignified worker feels secure and performs work more efficiently to provide quality work. Research limitation/implication- This study is limited to the health cluster of Hail which is service sector and used workplace dignity as mediator, while future study can test same model for production sector and can use workplace dignity as moderator. The finding of current study has theoretical, practical and empirical implementation not only for the service sector but for manufacturing sector. Originality/Value- The current research is unique, and the combination of these variables has never been studied. This study explains that any sector's leadership increases workers' performance by providing dignity in the workplace. Further, this workplace dignity helps to increase the performance of employees.