The Affective Commitment as a Mediator in Relationship between Military Commanders Transformational and Transactional Leadership with Subordinates Job Satisfaction in Malaysian Royal Signals Corp
Keywords:
Transformational Leadership, Transactional Leadership, Affective Organizational Commitment, Job Satisfaction, Partial Least Square Structure Equation Modelling (PLS SEM).Abstract
The objective of the study was to empirically investigate the direct effect of military commander
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