Leading Leadership Style to Motivate CulturalOriented Female Employees in I.T Sector of Developing Country: I.T Sectors' Responses from Pakistan

Adnan Haque, Riffat Faizan, Nasreen Zehra, Akhtar Baloch, Vipin Nadda and Fayyaz Riaz

International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 2015, vol. 5, issue 9, 280-302

Abstract: This empirical study explores different Leadership styles' dimensions influencing culturaloriented female employees' motivation in rapidly improving Pakistan's I.T sector. HypotheticoInductive-Deductive model was adapted to construct theoretical framework by opting mixed method under realism philosophy. Sample size is 357 female employees working in software houses of Pakistan's 10 cities selected by combining convenience sampling and stratified sampling techniques. Survey questionnaire contained close-ended questions based on Bass and Avolio (1994) Full Range MLQ Model and WMS. Moreover, 36 female employees were interviewed selected from top five business cities' of Pakistan's software houses through convenience sampling. Results indicate transformational leadership style's dimensions are dominant in motivating female employees scoring overall 0.75. Moreover, transactional has moderate positive relation (0.38) with sub-motivational variables. Though, 'Management-By-Expectation (Passive)' along with Laissez-faire leadership style has no relationship with sub-variables of motivation. In I.T sector of Pakistan, female employees are mainly motivated by interpersonal relations with supervisors, peers, and subordinate, friendly environment, flexibility, socialization, recognition, responsibility, social rewards, and most importantly improved working conditions. It is essential to motivate female workers through 'walk-the-talk' approach along with coerce and accurate vision.

Keywords: Transformational Leadership; Transactional Leadership; Laissez Faire Leadership; Dimensions of Leadership Styles; Cultural-oriented female workforce; IT Industry (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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