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The Relationship among Leadership style, Perceived Organizational Support, and Employees’ Job Performance in Iran Khodro Dissel Company

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The present study aimed to examine the relationship between leadership style and employees’ job performance in Iran Khodro Dissel Company. In so doing, the role of the moderating variable of perceived organizational support has been evaluated with regard to the relationship between leadership style and employees’ job performance. The method was applied in terms of the objective and correlational-descriptive in terms of method and nature. Accordingly, the study population was composed of all employees in Iran Khodro Dissel Company with at least bachelor degree that using Cochran formula, 261 subjects were selected as the study sample through simple random sampling technique. For data collection, the standard questionnaires of Bass and Olive (1994) Multi-factor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ) including transformational and transactional leadership styles, LaMastro (1999) perceived organizational support of employees and Paterson (1998) job performance were used. The collected data were analyzed using Lisrel and SPSS19 software. The results obtained from the study revealed that there is a significant relationship between leadership style and employee’s job performance in Iran Khodro Dissel Company. In addition, the results showed a significant relationship between perceived organizational support and job performance, transformational leadership style with perceived organizational support and job performance, and transactional leadership style with perceived organizational support and job performance. Also, the results of regression analysis approved the impact of moderating variable of perceived organizational support on the relationship between perceived leadership style and employees’ job performance in Iran Khodro Dissel Company.
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