The Effect of Leadership Style on Employee Commitment in the Mining Sector in Zimbabwe ()
ABSTRACT
The
purpose of this study was to establish the effect of leadership style on
employee commitment in the mining sector in
Zimbabwe. The mining industry in
Zimbabwe has been extensively affected by the loss of key personnel in key
areas such as engineering, metallurgy and geology among others. The loss of
such vital employees in the mining sector has had a negative impact on output
and consequently loss of the much-needed revenue to the Zimbabwean economy. It
is against this background that there was a need to establish the effect of
leadership style on employee commitment in an endeavour to
enhance job satisfaction. A quantitative approach was adopted in which
convenience sampling was employed. The main findings were that charismatic and
inspirational leadership style has moderate to strong positive relationship with subordinate affective commitment to the
organisation. Inspirational motivation had a moderate positive
correlation with affective commitment significant at (r = 0.46; p < 0.05) and Intellectual stimulation was found to have a strong correlation
with affective commitment, significant at (r = 0.67; p < 0.05). Laissez faire leadership style displayed a very weak negative
correlation between management by exception active with affective commitment,
significant at (r = -0.012; p < 0.05). This study recommends that managers in the Zimbabwe mining sector should strive to use
inspirational approaches in leading and involve employees in decision-making so
as to raise the standards of efficiency and effectiveness of an organization
and increase follower commitment.
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Chikove, M. and Shiri, A. (2021) The Effect of Leadership Style on Employee Commitment in the Mining Sector in Zimbabwe.
American Journal of Industrial and Business Management,
11, 1023-1235. doi:
10.4236/ajibm.2021.1110062.
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