CAUSAL EFFECT OF TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP ON EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE IN AN H COMPANY IN HAIDIAN DISTRICT, BEIJING, CHINA: THE MEDIATING ROLE OF ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT

Abstract

This research aims to investigate the influence of transformational leadership on employee performance in Company H through organizational commitment. The sample consisted of 340 employees in Company H. A questionnaire was administered to collect data, adopting a stratified random sampling method. Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) was employed for data analysis. The results indicated that transformational leadership has a direct and statistically significant influence on organizational commitment and employee performance at a significance level of 0.055. Simultaneously, transformational leadership indirectly affects employee performance through organizational commitment, also exhibiting statistical significance at a level of 0.055, with a predictive power of 49.4%.