Leadership and Organizational Performance Employees’ Motivation as Mediating Variable

Abstract

The article aims to assess the impact of leadership style on motivation and organizational performance. The empirical study was conducted in the General Fertilizers Company in Homs-Syria. The objective is to evaluate the influence of four selected traditional leadership styles, namely authoritarian, transformational, democratic and laissez-faire, on organizational performance by considering employees’ motivation as a mediating variable. This article is characterized by a descriptive design with a quantitative method. It uses deductive reasoning. Four hundred thirteen valid questionnaires were collected from Google Forms. The questionnaire passed through a purification process through an exploratory factor analysis EFA and highlighted statements possessing the highest contribution. The confirmatory factor analysis CFA proved that the four leadership styles impact employee motivation and organizational performance. The model fitness was validated using the CFA indices, including the GFA, IFI, and RMSEA. These indices were significant, and a critical ratio (C.R.) validated the research hypotheses.