AbstractThe objective of this study is to identify the relationship between transformational
leadership-transactional leadership styles on employee performance in the
construction sector of UAE. A quantitative research design was selected to answer
two research questions and two hypotheses. Three set of instruements were used in the
study which include; transformational, transactional and employee performance.
Three hundred and thirty-one employees of cocntruction companies ere chosen using
simple random sampling technique. Data analysis using the Pearson r correlation
reflects a strong relationship between leadrship styles and employee peformance. The
result showed that transformational leadership had positive relationship with
employee performance with value of .827 and significant at p < .000. The finding also
found that transactional leadership had significant relationship with employee
performance with the value of .854 where p < .000. Further, this study found that
leadership.....