Assessing the Mediating Effect of Leadership Styles on Favoritism and Job Performance in Family-Owned Businesses
Year: 2020
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Family-owned businesses have been criticized for having a lack of leadership effectiveness and yield unfavourable influence on employee’s job performance. Although there are ample studies on favouritism particularly in family-owned businesses, nevertheless very limited studies highlighted on the leadership styles as the significant mediator. This study aims to investigate the mediating effect of leadership styles namely democratic and autocratic styles between favouritism on gender and favouritism on social ties and job performance. Data was collected from 350 respondents via questionnaire and was analysed using correlation, multiple regression and Hayes PROCESS techniques. The findings of this study revealed interesting results of the mediation effect of both democratic and autocratic leadership styles between favouritism and job performance among employees in the family-owned business.
Institutions: Universiti Teknologi MARA System, Universiti Teknologi MARA
Language: English
Subfield: Human Factors and Ergonomics
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W3042344148