Leadership and employee performance in the petroleum industry of Saudi Arabia (PDF)

Scientific Study from the year 2015 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, , language: English, abstract: This research will focus on a critical assessment of leadership and employee performance in oil and gas sector of Saudi Arabia by taking into account three top petroleum companies.

To achieve this aim, the following list of objectives are formed
- To evaluate the link between employee performance and leadership in selected organisations
- To discover how leadership patterns affect employees' performance
- To explore the impact of leadership style on employees' productivity
- To investigate the factors affecting the performance of employees in selected organisation

Saudi Arabia as a nation is presently facing a quick increase in the number of entrepreneurs who establish businesses related to wholesales, maintenance and production industries in local areas. These businesses are increasing the expectations and interactions between the entrepreneur and employees on a daily basis. Due to this fact, the study will be of a huge importance in a number of ways:

1. It will help expose the relationship between organisational performance and leadership and how leadership techniques could be useful for petroleum industries to manage the environmental influences and differences.

2. It will be useful for students of business administration who may become entrepreneurs, managers and leaders in the future.

3. The study will also help the leaders and the managements of the petroleum industry become aware of the factors that really motivate their workers in high and low productivity in their work.

Similarly, it is expected that when the implications are prepared and applied between employees and leaders in the organisation, it would enhance improvement and co-operation in individual's performance and would also increase the interpersonal relationship and high productivity significantly. Other organisational issues such as aggression, fixation, stress, regression and friction between leaders and employees would also be reduced.