Leadership Styles and Job Performance of College Teachers: Mediating Role of Job Satisfaction

The aim of the current study is to examine the influence of leadership styles (i.e. transactional, laissez-faire, and transformational) of principals on job performance of teachers. Additionally, the study objective was also to test the job satisfaction as a mediator. Through convenient sampling, data were obtained from the teaching staff of private colleges. For the analysis, 369 responses were used. Data were subjected to SPSS for preliminary analysis and AMOS for hypotheses testing. Results revealed that transformational and transactional leadership positively influence both job satisfaction and job performance. Whereas laissezfaire was not significant with job satisfaction found to reducing factor for job performance. Transformational leadership is highly influential on job performance via mediating role of job satisfaction. Results as well revealed that job satisfaction also mediates the transactional leadership style and job performance. However, job satisfaction did not mediate the link between laissez-faire and job performance. Finally, the study purposed to the principals about the performance-oriented style of leadership and suggestions to the researcher for further studies.