THE INFLUENCE OF SITUATIONAL LEADERSHIP ON SUSTAINABLE PERFORMANCE: MEDIATING ROLE OF INTELLECTUAL STIMULATION

Abstract

The situational leadership trait emphasizes the need to adapt leadership style based upon competence and maturity of followers towards particular task at hand. This adaptability may lead to greater employees’ performance and institutional outcomes. Whereas, intellectual stimulation, as element of transformational leadership, involves inspiring followers to think creatively and critically examine existing challenging over innovations. This study aims to examine mediating role of intellectual stimulation in relationship between situational leadership and sustainable performance in the higher educational context by collecting data from teachers hailing from higher education institutions KP, Pakistan by using survey approach to explore diverse nature of relationships. The results confirmed existence of positive association and significant partial mediation in reaching the conclusion and making suitable decisions to contribute the existing knowledge from new perspectives. In this regard, some recommendations have been extracted from findings that may guide teachers, policy-makers and institutions for revisiting the phenomena in tailor-made format for ensuring the leadership role in sustainable performance over intellectual stimulation in contemporary competitive environment.