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Employee Performance and Leadership

Employee Performance and Leadership is a research topic within Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management. Science Explorer counts 26k research works in it since 1970. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the impact of leadership styles, skills, and organizational factors on the performance and innovation capability of various institutions, including schools, universities, industries, and public services. It investigates the mediating effects of job satisfaction, knowledge sharing, and work-family conflict on employee performance. The research also delves into the influence of psychological capital and the readiness for change mentality during the Covid-19 pandemic.

  • Leadership
  • Skills
  • Organizational Performance
  • Innovation Capability
  • Knowledge Sharing
  • Job Satisfaction
  • Transformational Leadership
  • Employee Performance
  • Work-Family Conflict
  • Psychological Capital
Research works
26k
fractional, since 1970
In the world top 10%
2.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+87%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Indonesia
93% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Employee Performance and Leadership

Which countries lead Employee Performance and Leadership research?

By volume, Indonesia and ?? publish the most (15k and 386 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Indonesia 15k works
  2. 2 ?? 386 works
  3. 3 Malaysia 170 works
  4. 4 United States 113 works
  5. 5 Philippines 105 works
  6. 6 Pakistan 94 works
  7. 7 India 88 works
  8. 8 China 58 works
  9. 9 Türkiye 40 works
  10. 10 Bangladesh 30 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

Indonesia: 93.1%??: 2.5%Malaysia: 1.1%United States: 0.7%6 others listed: 2.6%93%largest
Indonesia15k · 93.1%??386 · 2.5%Malaysia170 · 1.1%United States113 · 0.7%6 others listed415 · 2.6%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Employee Performance and Leadership research?

By volume in 2022-now, Universitas Patria Artha publishes the most Employee Performance and Leadership research, followed by Universitas Pamulang and Universitas Trisakti.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Universitas Patria ArthaIndonesia 709 works
  2. 2 Universitas PamulangIndonesia 396 works
  3. 3 Universitas TrisaktiIndonesia 220 works
  4. 4 Universitas Informatika dan Bisnis IndonesiaIndonesia 200 works
  5. 5 Mercu Buana UniversityIndonesia 194 works
  6. 6 Universitas Nusa BangsaIndonesia 190 works
  7. 7 Universitas Muhammadiyah SidoarjoIndonesia 178 works
  8. 8 University of Sarjanawiyata TamansiswaIndonesia 174 works
  9. 9 University of Pembangunan Nasional Veteran Jawa TimurIndonesia 171 works
  10. 10 Tarumanagara UniversityIndonesia 170 works

Who are the leading researchers in Employee Performance and Leadership?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Employee Performance and Leadership include Wilmar B. Schaufeli and Sugiyono Sugiyono.

  1. 1 Wilmar B. Schaufeli Netherlands 158k citations
  2. 2 Sugiyono Sugiyono Indonesia 39k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Employee Performance and Leadership?

The most cited paper in Employee Performance and Leadership is "Job satisfaction and organizational commitment effect in the transformational leadership towards employee performance" (Anis Eliyana, Syamsul Maarif, Muzakki Muzakki, 2019), with 746 citations. Next come "Transformational and transactional leadership effects on teachers' job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and organizational citizenship behavior in primary schools: The Tanzanian case" (723) and "Effect of Motivation, Leadership, and Organizational Culture on Satisfaction and Employee Performance" (696).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Job satisfaction and organizational commitment effect in the transformational leadership towards employee performance Anis Eliyana, Syamsul Maarif, Muzakki Muzakki · European Research on Management and Business Economics Open access 30 May 2019 746
2 Transformational and transactional leadership effects on teachers' job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and organizational citizenship behavior in primary schools: The Tanzanian case Samuel Nguni, Peter J. C. Sleegers, Eddie J. P. G. Denessen · School Effectiveness and School Improvement Jun 2006 723
3 Effect of Motivation, Leadership, and Organizational Culture on Satisfaction and Employee Performance Maartje Paais, Jozef R. Pattiruhu · Journal of Asian Finance Economics and Business Open access 14 Aug 2020 696
4 The effects of transformational leadership on teacher attitudes and student performance in Singapore William L. Koh, Richard M. Steers, James R. Terborg · Journal of Organizational Behavior Jul 1995 562
5 How Servant Leadership Influences Organizational Citizenship Behavior: The Roles of LMX, Empowerment, and Proactive Personality Alexander Newman, Gary Schwarz, Brian K. Cooper et al. · Journal of Business Ethics Open access 2 Sep 2015 544
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Employee Performance and Leadership research done?

The largest centres of Employee Performance and Leadership research in 2022-now are Jakarta (Indonesia), Makassar (Indonesia), Bandung (Indonesia) and Surabaya (Indonesia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Sumedang Utara, Bekasi and Probolinggo.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 JakartaIndonesia 2.3k works
  2. 2 MakassarIndonesia 1.1k works
  3. 3 BandungIndonesia 925 works
  4. 4 SurabayaIndonesia 873 works
  5. 5 MedanIndonesia 850 works
  6. 6 TangerangIndonesia 573 works
  7. 7 YogyakartaIndonesia 547 works
  8. 8 SemarangIndonesia 514 works
  9. 9 MalangIndonesia 469 works
  10. 10 PadangIndonesia 387 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Sumedang UtaraID · 73.1 works71×
  2. Bekasi57.9 works60×
  3. ProbolinggoID · 31.4 works38×
  4. RantauprapatID · 39.5 works35×
  5. SitubondoID · 68.1 works34×
  6. TangerangID · 573.0 works33×
  7. BatamID · 207.7 works33×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Employee Performance and Leadership than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Employee Performance and Leadership?

Among universities, judged by research, Institut Bisnis dan Teknologi Pelita Indonesia, Universitas Sunan Giri and Universitas Bhayangkara Jakarta Raya score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 18.16%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Institut Bisnis dan …Universitas Sunan GiriUniversitas Bhayangk…Universitas Patria A…
above the meannear itbelow it

One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Institut Bisnis dan Teknologi Pelita IndonesiaIndonesia 67.837.1%54.6×22 +65.9%
2Universitas Sunan GiriIndonesia 64.033.7%19.6×14 +389.6%
3Universitas Bhayangkara Jakarta RayaIndonesia 62.518.2%52.0×155 +613.5%
4Universitas Patria ArthaIndonesia 60.07.3%67.2×709 +33.9%
5Universitas Esa UnggulIndonesia 59.716.1%47.3×152 +237.4%
6Mercu Buana UniversityIndonesia 59.613.3%41.6×194 +20.7%
7University of BrawijayaIndonesia 59.015.6%10.0×119 +130.5%
8State University of MalangIndonesia 57.616.7%7.7×99 +93.9%
9Universitas PamulangIndonesia 57.08.7%73.4×396 +17.9%
10University of IndonesiaIndonesia 56.714.9%8.8×141 +74.3%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Employee Performance and Leadership, country by country

Is Employee Performance and Leadership research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 87% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2023. The fastest-growing topics are Employee Performance and Leadership.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Employee Performance and Leadership as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.053% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%Employee Performance and Leadership0.062% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Employee Performance and Leadership over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Employee Performance and Leadership9.6% in 20252020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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