سونا دل سنسار سہیلی
بیٹھی ہوں بیزار سہیلی
رستہ تیرا دیکھ رہے ہیں
دل آنکھیں رخسار سہیلی
ساون رت آنکھوں میں ٹھہری
نیر بنے پتوار سہیلی
وقت ہمارا قیدی ہو گا
جیون ہے گھر بار سہیلی
تم سے رنگ فضاؔ کے سارے
تم بن سب بے کار سہیلی
Mankind is scattered across the surface of the earth in the forms of different religious creeds, tribal affiliations, race, colour and nationalities. Yet they share some traits that are similar and universal to all human societies. These traits include love for children and respect for the elders. However, changing times have eroded some of these positive traits. The condition of senior citizens is not enviable in the West and those following in their footsteps. Children are not fulfilling their natural duty to their old parents, and quite often the elderly are forcefully kicked out of their own houses and accommodated in designated places for the old, run by the state welfare organizations.
Leadership communication plays a pivotal role in the e ectiveness and e ciency of an organization. Successful organizations always remain concerned about every aspect of their leadership and the verbal communication being used by the leaders remains the top agenda of these organizations. This research study endeavours to investigate the model based on Sullivan''s (1988) Motivating Language Theory. This study investigates the relationship and impact that the three components, i.e.; 1) Direction-Giving Language,2) Empathetic Language, and 3) Meaning-Making Language use on job performance. It also analyse the mediating role of job satisfaction, and a ective commitment between the use of all three components of motivating language and job performance. A sample of all levels of teaching stafrom all public and private universities in Pakistan was drawn based on the non-probability convenient technique. A total 770 questionnaires were administered to the target respondents; in return, 633 questionnaires were received and then 577 complete questionnaires in every aspect were considered for data analysis. At the dyadic level, the teachers were asked to tap their perception regarding the use of all three components of motivating language by their Deans/HoDs and also to provide information regarding their own level of job satisfaction and a ective commitment. In response, to a six-item scale of job performance, the Deans/HoDs provided the perceived evaluation of the performance of their teaching stamembers. The Correlation Coe cient Test was applied to ascertain the relationship between the studied variables. The use of direction-giving and empathetic language by Deans/HoDs has a positive significant relationship with the teachers'' a ective commitment, but the less signi cant negative relationship was found with meaning-making language. Direction-giving and empathetic language used by the Deans/HoDs has a positive signi cant relationship with the teachers'' job satisfaction, but negative relationship with the use of meaning-making language. The results of CFA and SEM indicate that job satisfaction and a ective commitment mediate the relationship between the use of direction-giving language and x job performance and also between the use of empathetic language and job performance. However, job satisfaction and a ective commitment do not mediate the relationship between the use of meaning-making language and job performance. Thending generates more interest in enhancing communication patterns used in the context of the university environment that develop more job satisfaction and job performance of the faculty members. This also added to the literature of leadership communication in another cultural environment. The study recommends that additional testing to be carried out with the longitudinal approach in order to check its further generalization. This study also recommends more leadership-development programmes to be imparted for enhancing the dynamics of verbal communication used by institutional leaders. Key words: Motivating language, Direction-giving, Empathetic, Meaning- making, Job satisfaction, A ective commitment, Job performance.