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In this global competitive environment, effective leadership style is necessary to reduce the attrition rate. From the effective leadership styles only it is possible to achieve organizational goal productively. Leadership styles affect on the employee performance and productivity. This paper summarizes and analyzes the available literature of leadership styles and effect on different components of Quality of work life.
Keywords: Leadership styles, productivity, performance, work life.
Introduction
An effective leader influences followers in a desired manner to achieve desired goals. Different leadership styles may affect organizational effectiveness or performance30. Transformational leadership is a stronger predictor of both job satisfaction and overall satisfaction . In the study it was concluded that organizational performance is influenced by a competitive and innovative culture. Organizational Culture is influenced by leadership style and consequently, leadership style affects organizational performance.
Review of Literature
Leadership Styles: Leadership is a social influence process in which the leader seeks the voluntary participation of subordinates in an effort to reach organization goals10. A leader can be defined as a person who delegates or influencing others to act so as to carry out specified objectives28. Today's organizations need effective leaders who understand the complexities of the rapidly changing global environment. If the task is highly structured and the leader has good relationship with the employees, effectiveness will be high on the part of the employees. The study further revealed that democratic leaders take great care to involve all members of the team in discussion and can work with a small but highly motivated team.
Barchiesi et al1 measured the leadership effectiveness and leadership role and its influence on performance, leadership behaviors, attitudes. They found that high leadership indexes are not related to past performance records but associated both to higher potentiality of enhanced performance and to higher reputation of organizations, pointing in the direction of a meaningful influence of behavioral complexity and dynamics on the leadership perceived level A mechanism of leadership styles affecting team innovation in the private research centers investigated the relationship between different leadership styles and team innovation with the mediating effects of knowledge sharing and team communication14.
Exploring the Relationship between Organizational Culture and Style of Leadership we used the factors like Organizational Culture, Charismatic Leadership, Transformational Leadership and Transactional...