The impact of job satisfaction, training and leadership on performance of employees while taking role ambiguity as a moderating variable: empirical study on public universities of KSA

• Main Authors: Rashed Alshery, Waleed, Ahmad, Fais
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Medwell Journals 2016
• Subjects: HD28 Management. Industrial Management
• Online Access: http://repo.uum.edu.my/21224/1/IBM%2010%2012%202016%202460%202473.pdf; http://repo.uum.edu.my/21224/; https://www.medwelljournals.com/abstract/?doi=ibm.2016.2460.2473

Employee performance is always considered as one of the important factors of employee management that determines the success of an organization.The higher education sector of any country is considered one as important sectors which need toconcentrate on achieving their goals successfully.Thus, this research aimed to investigate effect of job satisfaction, leadership and training on the employees’ performance by taking role ambiguity as a moderating variable in the higher education of KSA.A questionnaire survey was used to collect the data from 366 emplyees working in higher education of KSA.The results found that job satisfaction and training have significant positive impact on employee performance.Surprisingly leadership style has significant negative impact on employee performance.The value of this paper was in showing the role ambiguity significantly moderates the job satisfaction, leadership style and training in higher education sector of KSA.