Measuring the Mediating role of Social Intelligence betweenLeadership and Job Performance in Private Health Sector of Pakistan

Abstract

The work environment is continuously changing. To deal with this changingenvironment, in the health sector, job performance is one of the most concerningand investigating topic. Job Performance is playing the major role in organizational success and growth. Increasing Job Performance of the health care employees is significantly important as it is directly associated with the patients and humanlives. Organizational success is mainly depending on the employees. Leaders can influenceand motivate the employees in the organizational setting. In the health care sector, to enhance the performance of the employees it is becoming important to adopt therole of transformational leadership. This leadership style with high social intelligencehas a capacity to influence job performance. The objective of this study is todetermine the role of transformational leadership on job performance throughthemediating role of social intelligence. Social intelligence act as a mediator  between transformational leadership and job performance in this study. Islamabad and Rawalpindi were the main source of data collection. Size of 530 respondents wereincluded in the final analysis. To gathered the data convenience sampling techniquewas used. Smart PLS 4 software was used to measure the results and structural equation modeling was used to test the hypotheses of the study. The results of this study confirms that social intelligence mediates the positive relationship between transformational leadership and job performance in the healthcare sector of Pakistan. The results are significantly important of this study for others industries of
the Pakistan which are concerned with these variables.

Keywords: Leadership, Job Performance, Social Intelligence, Health CareProfessionals, Structural Equation Modelling