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Leading Leadership style to motivate cultural-oriented female employees in the I.T sector of developing country: I.T Sectors responses from Pakistan

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

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This empirical study explores different Leadership styles' dimensions influencing culturaloriented female employees' motivation in rapidly improving Pakistan's I.T sector. Hypothetico-Inductive-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.

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  • Haque, Adnan ul & Faizan, Riffat & Zehra, Nasreen & Baloch, Akhtar & Nadda, Vipin & Riaz, Fayyaz, 2015. "Leading Leadership style to motivate cultural-oriented female employees in the I.T sector of developing country: I.T Sectors responses from Pakistan," MPRA Paper 72334, University Library of Munich, Germany.
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    1. Adnan ul Haque & Fred Yamoah, 2014. "Gender Employment Longevity: I.T Staff Response to Organizational Support in Pakistan," International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, Human Resource Management Academic Research Society, International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, vol. 4(12), pages 324-347, December.
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    Keywords

    Transformational Leadership; Transactional Leadership; Laissez Faire Leadership; Dimensions of Leadership Styles; Cultural-oriented female workforce; I.T Industry;
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    JEL classification:

    • L0 - Industrial Organization - - General
    • L2 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior
    • L29 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Other
    • L8 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Services
    • L86 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Services - - - Information and Internet Services; Computer Software
    • M1 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration
    • M12 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - Personnel Management; Executives; Executive Compensation

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