The Influence of Leadership Styles on Organizational Performance to Small and Medium Telecom Enterprises

The rapidly changing and highly competitive global business environment requires that Telcom Enterprises (TEs) practice high levels of management innovation to achieve customers satisfaction and gain competitive advantage over competitors. The results of which ensure long- term survivability in the marketplace. Businesses must therefore promote research and development and embrace new technological advancements in their business practices. Moreover, businesses should, keep the operational environment under constant surveillance, regularly assess performance, and strive for improvement. Therefore, knowledge management is a critical requirement for businesses’ success and innovation. Harnessing knowledge requires a leadership that can effectively integrate knowledge and innovation. There are several leadership styles that are employed in running businesses where each style has a different impact on the outcome of challenges faced by TE. In the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia TEs contributed to the Saudi GDP reached SAR ($53 billion) in 2022, and the challenges that limit their growth include low managerial and technical skills as well as limited access to information. The study employed a quantitative approach, the current researcher hypothesized four testable hypotheses from theories of literature review. In term of testing the hypotheses, primary data were collected from TEs have operated in Saudi Arabia as well as 200 were drawn for study. Additionally, the current researcher applied a mix of statistical tests to analyses the data. The finding results were shown some of hypotheses support the literature and part of the partially support. The results of these studies confirmed that the leadership styles effected on organizational performance. The results were not matching with kind of leadership styles. Furthermore, the TEs leadership were connected to best style.