Abstract:

Employee performance is a measure of the effectiveness of one's job. It is also the way an individual does a job evaluated by its effectiveness. Hence, Opyimal job performance is often the primary outcome that organizations seek to attain. Therefore, this study examined the effect of leadership behaviour on the job performance of employees at Abu Dhabi National Oil Company. The validity and reliability of the measurement and the structual models were ascertained. The Partial Least Squares Structural Eauitation Modeling (PLS-SEM) was used to test hypotheses. Findingd revealed that there was a subtantial mediation effect of involvement in the relationship between leadership behaviour and job performance. The finding add to the extant literature by integrating the factors that could improve job performance. Based on the finding of the study, it was recommended that oil and gas organisations in UAE improve their organizational involvement and appoint managers who possess good leadership qualities. By donig so, employee job performance can be enhanced, thgus leading to positive and significant effect on the overall organizational performance. The implications for practice and future research were also discussed.