Strategic leadership and its impact on employee performance with a mediating effect of employee engagement of HEC employees

Abstract

The study was conducted to investigate the relationship of strategic leadership on employee performance through the mediation of employee engagement in Higher Education Commission Islamabad head office. The inquiry was conducted in a natural working environment of an organization where respondents are situated/located that is a filed study. Simple random sampling technique was used to carry out the research using structured questionnaires which were adopted from other researcher's studies. The questionnaires were based on five point Iikert scale measunng strategic leadership, employee engagement and employee performance. 127 questionnaires were distributed among middle level employees of Higher Education Commission out of which all 127 were useable. This data was analyzed using SPSS.The descriptive statistics indicated that strategic leadership shows positive significant impact on employee performance whereas employee engagement does mediate the relationship between independent variable I-e Strategic leadership, and dependent variable i-e Employee Performance. Recommendations to improve employee perfom1ance under this study are provided to the organization