Abstract

It has been evidenced in the literature that transformational leadership style was a central feature of organizational performance while job satisfaction and organizational commitment have been theoretically and empirically linked to organizational effectiveness. It has also been argued that the relationship between transformational leadership style, job satisfaction and organizational commitment were differed some of the studies asserted that the relationship between these variables was positive relationship while other studies pointed out that the relationship between them were negative relationship. Furthermore, this study is attempted to investigate the relationship between transformational leadership, job satisfaction and organizational commitment and the effect of organizational commitment as a mediating variable on this relationship in Petroleum sector in Libya. Quantitative survey method was applied and four broadly hypothesized were tested with a sample of 280 employees from petroleum sector in Libya was selected to answer the questionnaire. SPSS software was used to analyze the data collected based on descriptive statistics (mean, standard deviation, percentage, Spearman Correlation and Multiple Regression). The empirical results indicated that organizational commitment effect the relationship between transformational leadership style and job satisfaction while, the relationship between transformational leadership style, job satisfaction and organizational commitment was positive significant relationship in petroleum sector in Libya.

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