The Impact of Leadership Styles on Employees’ Commitmentwithin Dubai Government Entities: Mediating Effects ofCommunication

Abstract

Employee commitment is the essential element especially for the government
entities success where employees are not willing to perform and this situation
motivates the research to examine employee commitment of the government
entities in Dubai. Thus, this study investigated the relationship between
leadership styles and employees’ commitment and communication among
Dubai government entities. This study also assess the impact of
communication on the relationship between leadership styles and employees’
commitment at the Dubai Immigration Department (DID). This study has
followed the quantitative methods of data collection and also used the smart-
PLS for analysis. The findings revealed that transformational and
transactional styles have positive effects on employees’ commitment to DID.
Findings also revealed that there is a significant relationship between
transformational and transactional styles and communication. A positive
effect is also discovered to exist between communication and employees’
commitment. Communication mediates transformational and transactional
styles and employee commitment. The original contribution to knowledge is
the mediating role communication plays in DID in relation to employees’
commitment. These findings helped to determine the appropriate
recommendations for policy and practice in the UAE, as well as suggestions
for future research.