The Impact of leadership Style and organization culture on employee readiness to change with mediating role of employee commitment to energy management An empirical study on petrochemical secto in Egypt

Abstract

This research investigates the leadership style and organization culture on employee readiness to change with mediating role of employee commitment to energy management in petrochemical sector in Egypt. The objectives of this research are: to recognize the effect of leaderships style on employees’ commitment to energy management; to identify the effect of the organization culture on employees’ commitment to energy management; to assess the effect of employees’ commitment to energy management on their readiness to change, using structural equation modeling. The research uses a quantitative approach; an administrated questionnaire is used to gather the required data to test the developed hypotheses, analyzing the data through structural equation model (SEM) using AMOS software version 25. Results of this study show: there is a significant direct effect between leadership style and employee readiness to change; there is a significant direct effect between organizational culture and employee readiness to change; there is a significant direct effect between leadership style and employee commitment to energy management; there is a significant direct effect between organizational culture and employee commitment to energy; there is a significant direct effect between employee commitment to energy management and employee readiness to change. The study found that the results of the mediation effect indicate that there is partial mediation effect of the employee commitment to energy management between the relationship of leadership style, organizational culture and employee readiness to change.