Impact of Integrated Leadership on employee attitude and behavior

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ACKNOWLEDGMENT

First of all we would like to thanks Allah, that by his grace we became able to conduct research
work. We would like to thanks our supervisor Ms. Tasneem Fatima who helped us in learning
each and everything about research. She assisted us in every way to conduct the research.
We would like to thanks respondents whom participation made our research completed. This
thesis would not have been possible without their support and guidance. Our special thanks to
our University, who has helped us to recognize our skills and have provided opportunities to
further polish them.
Last, we want to thank our parents and all teachers for the work they do to boost us. Without
their support we would never have been able to do it.
Abstract:
This research thesis investigates the impact of integrated leadership on employee attitudes and
behaviors of employees in telecommunication sector of Pakistan. Five leadership roles ( ) have
been studied in integrated leadership and its relationship have been studied with 6 dependent
variables particularly justice (distributive, procedural and interactional), job stress, organizational
politics, affective commitment, job performance and empowerment.
It is an empirical study with cross-sectional design based on survey method. The data is collected
through questionnaire tool from the employees of 5 telecommunication companies in twin cities
of Islamabad and Rawalpindi. Sample size is 250 and employees belong to three management
levels( upper, middle and lower).
For data analysis, descriptive statistics, reliability analysis, correlation analysis and linear
regression analysis have been applied using SPSS 15.
The results indicated that integrated leadership is significantly related to all dependent variables
except affective commitment which was dropped from analysis due to insignificant reliability.
Key Words: Integrated Leadership, distributive, procedural, interactional justice, job stress,
organizational politics, job performance and empowerment.
Chapter # 1
1.1INTRODUCTION
Integrated leadership is very essential for leadership effectiveness. Researchers (Fernandez,
2005; Hunt, 1991; Van Wart, 2005; Yukl, 2002) have evidenced that integrated leadership is
very important for leadership effectiveness. Integrated Leadership has been defined by many
researchers. In 2006, Wilson has studied that there is the balance of Essence and form in
effective leadership. Leaders who integrated both essence and form have achieved high
Leadership effectiveness. Essence is the identity that is given to the leaders by their qualities and
form is what a leader does to achieve its goals. Fletcher and Kaufer (2003) explained that new
models showed leadership as a shared phenomenon arising at various levels and dependent on
social relations and system of influence. Researchers have begun to develop various integrated
leadership models to explain leadership effectiveness. In 2010, Fernandez has examined the
relationship between integrated leadership and organization performance. They analyzed that
integrated leadership have a significant role in organization and have a positive effect on
performance. Researchers have not done so much work on integrated Leadership. This study
creates two important contributions to the developing research on integrated leadership. First the
concept of integrated leadership in public and private sector of Islamabad. Integrated leadership
in the public and private sector in this study involves five leadership roles performed collectively
by directors, managers, team leaders and executives in private and public organization. Second,
the relationship between integrated leadership and performance in the public and private sector
and effect of integrated leadership on distributive, procedural, interactional justice, job stress,
organizational politics, job performance and empowerment.