To Investigate the Impact of Leadership Styles on Quality Work Culture in Ngos Of Pakistan
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Abstract
Leadership styles have enormous impact on the performance of employees and achievement of organizational goals. Some organizations never encourage quality work culture while others consider quality work to serve the clients as a yardstick to measure the performance of the employees. Moreover, the culture that promotes quality ultimately leads to workplace harmonization. Numerous studies have reviewed different concepts pertaining to quality work culture, leadership, leadership theories, and leadership styles; so, the current research study has significant theoretical background.
This study was conducted on 14 different NGOs (Non-Government Organizations) across Pakistan. These organizations are also called as humanitarian organizations or not-for-profit sector. The targeted population for the study was fulltime employees working for operations and other supporting departments in the humanitarian organizations, who are dealing with management issues and researches of the similar kind. The data were collected from 150 respondents working in different NGOs in Pakistan through questionnaires. Most of the respondents were either managers or deputy managers.
The core purpose of this study was to explore whether a significant relationship exists between the leadership styles such as transactional and transformational leadership styles and quality-focused work culture or not. This study revealed that significant relationship exists between the two mentioned leadership styles and the quality work culture. Our finding reveals that transformational leadership has more significant effects on quality work culture in comparison of transactional leadership style. This study has been conducted with a hope to improve the work culture in the NGOs of Pakistan by finding out the most significant leadership style
Keywords
Leadership styles, Quality Work Culture, NGO
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