Abstract:
As the global business environment becomes increasingly competitive, the manager’s
leadership style is gaining importance to drive employees’ efficiencies and productivity levels.
Employees are the key drivers of the organization. Managers are expected to demonstrate
strong leadership that can boost employees’ performances and direct followers to achieve
organization goals. This study was conducted to discover the relationship between leadership
styles and employees’ job performances. Specifically, this paper aims to identify the degree
of influence among the three types of leadership styles namely, transformational leadership,
transactional leadership, and thought leadership on employees’ job performances in the
Malaysian private sector. Researchers have conducted many studies on transformational
and transactional leadership theories adopted from Full Range Leadership Model developed
by (Bass & Avolio, 1994). However, thought leadership role has started to draw much
attention on how leadership styles affect employees’ job performances. This article also aims
to provide an alternative view that distinguishes from previous researches which focus on
different leadership styles used by managers to improve employees’ job performances in
different settings. A conceptual framework has been developed to examine the impact of
the three types of leadership styles on employees’ job performances
