Quality Work-Life as Predictor to Organisational Commitment under Contrasting Leadership Styles: I.T Responses from Pakistans Private Software Houses

Riffat Faizan; Nasreen Zehra

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Riffat Faizan
Nasreen Zehra

Keywords:

quality work-life; transformational leadership; transactional leadership; organisational commitment; job satisfaction

Abstract

This study investigate the dimensions of organisational commitment under transformational and transactional leadership style while considering the attributes of Quality Work-life prevailing in Pakistan's private software houses. Theoretical framework is developed by considering studies commenced in last three decades on similar topic. This study considers positivist paradigm with objective epistemology, realism ontology, and hyopthetico-deductive quantitative method to explore the relationship between research variables. The sample size for study is 408 participants from 10 mega cities of Pakistan through combining probability and nonprobability sampling technique. Self-administered survey questionnaire was circulated through HR department of targeted firms.

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Quality Work-Life as Predictor to Organisational Commitment under Contrasting Leadership Styles: I.T Responses from Pakistans Private Software Houses. (2016). Global Journal of Management and Business Research, 16(A6), 9-23. https://journalofbusiness.org/index.php/GJMBR/article/view/1995

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