Does corporate culture and leadership influence employee work performance? Evidence from the Slovak Republic
Does corporate culture and leadership influence employee work performance? Evidence from the Slovak Republic

Summary/Abstract: Research background: Nowadays, corporate culture has become a strategic priority for companies. It is an important part of business, as it indicates the overall trend in employee behavior and work relations. At the same time, corporate culture helps employees understand the company, identify with the company's goals, and become part of the company. In addition, corporate culture affects work performance or the type of leadership used by company managers. Purpose of the article: The main aim of our research is to find out whether corporate culture affects the work performance of employees and, at the same time, corporate culture influences employee work performance through leadership. Methods: The reliability of the data was examined through reliability analysis. Subsequently, four hypotheses were confirmed. A mediation model was used to confirm the hypotheses. A mediation model is presented in statistics as a mechanism or process that tries to explain, name, or describe the observed relationship between an independent and a dependent variable through the inclusion of a third explanatory variable. Findings & Value added: Based on the reliability analysis, we have shown that the data is reliable. Using the mediation model, we proved the truth of all four hypotheses. This was proven based on the p value and the lower and upper confidence interval results. All investigated factors were significant at the α 0.05 significance level. Therefore, it can be concluded that corporate culture has an impact on leadership. Corporate culture has an impact on the work performance of employees. Leadership has an impact on the work performance of employees. Leadership mediates the impact of corporate culture on employee performance.

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