Abstract
For any business across the globe, employees form a core aspect of the organizational activity for the accomplishment of the organizational goals and objectives. Leadership and leadership styles are major influential factors and/or determinants of the employee's behavior for any organization. However, it has been reported that most leaders across the globe are unable to comprehend the leadership style role adopted the enhancement of the level of motivation. Thus, this research study aimed to determine the impact of leadership styles on employee job performance that is mediated by job satisfaction and employee motivation. To meet this objective, the research was conducted at a Commercial Bank, which is very popular for providing the best Banking facility. A total of 80 employees of Bank of Kathmandu Limited, Nepal, Kathmandu branch was included as a sample. The positivist paradigm has been adopted by this research because the positivist research philosophy is the suitable physiology for quantitative research. Also, the researcher used the quantitative research method for this study because this technique is concerned with logic, numbers, and taking an objective viewpoint. In addition, this method emphasizes unchanging data and numeric detailed, convergent reasoning instead of divergent reasoning. This research study has been completed using the primary data collection method and data was gathered by using the questionnaire method. The purposive sampling method has been selected by the researcher to select the sample for this study because it is a versatile method of sampling that can be tailored to increase the effectiveness of the survey. The ethics of research was strictly followed in this research. In this study, employee job performance was examined concerning two types of leadership including transactional leadership, and transformational leadership. The independent variables for this study were transactional leadership, transformational leadership, job satisfaction, and employee motivation while the dependent variable was employee job performance. The analysis of data was done by using SPSS version 20. From the analysis using SPSS, it was found that both types of leadership styles do not have an impact on employee performance. In addition, employee job performance was not found to be mediated by job satisfaction whereas, employee job performance was found to be 8 mediated by employee motivation. The finding of this study can suggest leaders of the organization consider motivating employees if they want their employees to perform better and to be highly productive. To support this finding, future researchers might concentrate on all organizations that belong to a similar sector revealing certain sectorial differences and similarities