THE MEDIATING ROLE OF LONG TERM ORIENTATION AT THE INDIVIDUAL LEVEL FOR THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PARTICIPATIVE LEADERSHIP AND TURNOVER INTENTION

Abstract

Long-term orientation is generally evaluated in terms of national or organizational culture in the literature, where the individual level studies about long-term orientation were inadequate. This study evaluates long-term orientation as an individual level variable and examines the potential effects of participative leadership style on the employee’s time orientation and turnover intention. In other words, this study evaluates the effect of participative leadership on the turnover intentions and investigates the mediating effect of long-term orientation at the individual level for the relationship between participative leadership and turnover intention. Data is collected from 310 telecommunication employees by using questionnaire method. After the evaluation of validity and reliability issues of employed measures in the study, structural equation modeling was used to test the research hypotheses. Baron and Kenny (1986) approach and bootstrapping methodology were concurrently used in order to test the mediating effect of long-term orientation. Study results show that participative leadership affects turnover intention negatively and significantly. Further, long-term orientation fully mediates the participative leadership-turnover intention relationship. Some suggestions for future research are offered.