A study of the impact of leadership styles on employee motivation: an empirical study in corporate sector.

Leadership and the different associated styles have an immense impact on how employees perform and grow, to lead positive organisational outcomes. The purpose of this study would be to investigate the impact of leadership styles on motivation, as a predictor of group or organizational performance. For ages, Leadership has been a subject of much debate and deliberation and how the different styles of leadership evoke different responses from followers. In corporate context the dynamics of these two entities, the ―leader‖ and, ―the led‖ play a key role in shaping the destiny of the organisation. The study followed the positivist paradigm which provided an objective reality against which claims were compared and truth was ascertained. In this descriptive study, the goal has been to discover the pattern of cause and effect, which can predict phenomenon. As a part of the descriptive research methodology, data collected has been subjected to the thinking process in terms of ordered reasoning. A qualitative research approach has been used to analyze the hypothesized relationships.