Determining Sustainable Performance of Punjab Healthcare Sector in Post-Covid Era: Organizational Commitment Perspective

Abstract

This research effort entails to assess the sustainable performance of healthcare sector of Punjab, Pakistan. This study contributes in the body of knowledge by assessing the role of transactional leadership, transformational leadership, career planning and job design in determining the sustainable performance with mediating role of organizational commitment. The study was conducted on the hospitals of Pakistan on the nurses that considered as important employees of healthcare sector and data was collected through questionnaires by applying simple random sampling technique. The collected data was assessed on Smart PLS3 for construct reliability, validity and hypotheses testing, the study revealed that transactional leadership and career planning are insignificant to predict the sustainable performance, transformational leadership, job design and organizational commitment significantly influence the sustainable performance. Furthermore, transactional leadership, transformational leadership, and job design significantly influence the organizational commitment, but career planning has no effect on organizational planning. The mediating role of organizational commitment was reported between transactional leadership, transformational leadership, job design and sustainable performance, but no mediation was reported between career planning and sustainable performance. The thesis recommendations and limitations are given at the end.