Mahmoud Kamal Abouraia¹, Saad Mohammed Othman²

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¹ Hamdan Bin Mohammed Smart University, Dubai, UAE.
² Department of Finance and Economics, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE.
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Abstract: Transformational leadership is the current design for numerous financial institutions which manifests how bank executives could impact psychological as well as behavioral repercussions of their bank representatives. The ultimate intention of this descriptive research study is to identify the connection between transformational leadership, job satisfaction and organizational commitment of workforces operating in the financial market of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. A five-point Likert-scale questionnaire, containing 38 survey items, separated right into four components which developed and reviewed. Four financial institutions were sorted out on a straightforward and unique testing principle. An overall of 300 questionnaires apportioned in four banks from which 181 questionnaires reciprocated with 60.33 percent response rate. For the objective of manipulation and analysis, useable data grasped to a software package called SPSS. The integrity of the questionnaire was examined and found to be 0.85. The research outcomes unveiled a robust assistance for the proposed significant and positive connection between transformational leadership, job satisfaction, and organizational commitment of bank representatives. The outcomes additionally suggested the inverted relationship among personnel’s job satisfaction as well as for purposes to abdicate from their financial institutions.

Keywords: Financial Institution, Job Satisfaction, Organizational Commitment, Transformational Leadership, Turnover Intentions

Cite this paper: Abouraia, M. and Othman, S. (2017) Transformational Leadership, Job Satisfaction, Organizational Commitment, and Turnover Intentions: The Direct Effects among Bank Representatives. American Journal of Industrial and Business Management, 7, 404-423. doi: 10.4236/ajibm.2017.74029.

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