Open AccessImpact of Mediating Role of Employees’ Creativity & Relationship of Leadership Styles and Employees’ Commitment to Change at Private Sector Universities in Sindh Province- Pakistan
Author(s) -
Riyaz Hussain Massan,
Munwar Hussain Pahi
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
business and management research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1927-601X
pISSN - 1927-6001
DOI - 10.5430/bmr.v8n4p34
Subject(s) - transformational leadership , transactional leadership , creativity , psychology , leadership style , population , business , public relations , marketing , social psychology , sociology , political science , demography
Globally rapid progress of the organizations can be enumerated with their adaptability to change. Therefore, change must be coherent with leadership styles and be well coordinated with employees’ willingness. It is comprehensible that organizations which did not familiarize and accept change could not survive and are no more in this business world. The target population of this study was permanent faculty members of the private universities in Sindh Province of Pakistan. Total 349 questionnaires were distributed to respondents of the Sindh province of Pakistan. Henceforth total 89 usable questionnaires were received from respondents. Data collected from permanent faculty members through questionnaires survey. To analyze the data, Partial Least Squares (PLS) path modeling was used by using Smart-PLS 2.0. The outcomes of this research work revealed a significant relationship between the transformational leadership and transactional leadership styles, furthermore transactional and transformational leadership styles mediate the relationship between employees’ commitment to change and employee’s creativity.