Purpose

This study aims to investigate the influence of responsible leadership on employee duty orientation in the manufacturing sector of Ghana by using job satisfaction as a mediating variable.

Design/methodology/approach

This study relied on the quantitative approach and explanatory research design for the execution. This study gathered data from 325 employees across three manufacturing firms and applied the partial least squares structural equation modelling technique to test hypotheses.

Findings

This study established that responsible leadership had significant positive relationship with duty orientation and job satisfaction. The findings further disclosed that job satisfaction was positively related to duty orientation. This study provided evidence that job satisfaction serves as a mechanism through which responsible leadership could influence duty orientation.

Practical implications

This study recommends that for manufacturing firms to enhance job satisfaction, which will eventually lead to employees’ demonstrating duty orientation, the employers and relevant stakeholders such as board of directors and shareholders should emphasise responsible leadership traits among various managers and supervisors.

Originality/value

This study contributes to knowledge in a novel research area. It adds to empirical evidence by highlighting the possible variables that may influence employees to engage in duty orientation.

中文翻译：

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负责任的领导、工作满意度和职责导向：加纳制造业的经验教训

目的

本研究旨在通过使用工作满意度作为中介变量来调查负责任的领导对加纳制造业员工职责取向的影响。

设计/方法/方法

本研究依赖于执行的定量方法和解释性研究设计。本研究收集了来自三个制造公司的 325 名员工的数据，并应用偏最小二乘结构方程建模技术来检验假设。

发现

本研究表明，负责任的领导与职责导向和工作满意度有显着的正相关关系。调查结果进一步表明，工作满意度与职责取向呈正相关。这项研究提供的证据表明，工作满意度是负责任的领导可以影响职责取向的一种机制。

实际影响

本研究建议，制造企业要提高工作满意度，最终导致员工表现出责任导向，雇主和董事会、股东等相关利益相关者应在各种经理和主管中强调负责任的领导特质。

原创性/价值

这项研究有助于了解一个新的研究领域。它通过强调可能影响员工从事职责导向的可能变量来增加经验证据。