LEADERSHIP STYLE AND EMPLOYEE RETENTION IN HIGHER EDUCATION SECTOR OF PAKISTAN

Abstract

Creativity at the workplace is a key factor that enables organizational growth and development, there better leadership skill is crucial for creating an environment for raising a creative workplace. This study empirically analyzes the leadership styles adopted in the Higher Education Sector of Pakistan and their impact on the retention of employees, incorporating transactional leadership, transformational leadership, and innovative environment as independent variables, and employee retention as the dependent variables. Further, this study assimilated the role of diversity on employee retention as moderators considering it elements. From the diversity context, this study mainly relies on demographic information only and discusses the moderating impact of gender of respondent, gender of supervisor, education level, and employment status as a model to interpret the impact. For the empirical analysis of the study the digital questionnaire has been distributed and received 411 respondents from the Higher Education Sector. SPSS has been used for the analysis. The studies concluded that transformational leadership is significant in the Higher Education Sector of Pakistan and all the four factors of diversity are not moderating in this set of data. Keywords: Leadership, Transactional Leadership, Transformational Leadership, Innovative environment, Diversity. Gel Classifications: M14, L14, I23