Date of Award
12-2019
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy
Department
Public Affairs and Administration
First Advisor
Dr. Daniela Schroeter
Second Advisor
Dr. Vincent Reitano
Third Advisor
Dr. Kevin Corder
Fourth Advisor
Dr. Nathan Grasse
Keywords
UAE leadership, GCC leadership, Emiratisation, turnover intention, Middle East, localisation
Abstract
This study sheds light on the Abu Dhabi Public School employee’s perception, transformational, and transactional leadership style and their nuanced effects on satisfaction, commitment, and turnover intention. The study found that transformational leadership increased satisfaction and commitment, and decreased turnover intention. Also, diverging from theoretical expectation, only some aspects of transactional leadership such as passive management by expectation had a decreased satisfaction, and increased turnover intention. Moreover, the study proved that to an extent western instruments, such as the MLQ (Bass & Avolio, 2004), TCM (Allen & Meyer, 2004), and MSQ (Weiss, Dawis, England, & Lofquist, 1967), do work in the Middle East.
Access Setting
Dissertation-Open Access
Recommended Citation
Aljanahi, Mohammed Humaid, "Leadership, Satisfaction, Commitment, and Turnover Intention in the United Arab Emirates Public Sector" (2019). Dissertations. 3514.
https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/dissertations/3514