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

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

Riffat Faizan

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ABMS - Open University of Switzerland

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

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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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Riffat Faizan. 2016. \u201cQuality Work-Life as Predictor to Organisational Commitment under Contrasting Leadership Styles: I.T Responses from Pakistans Private Software Houses\u201d. Global Journal of Management and Business Research - A: Administration & Management GJMBR-A Volume 16 (GJMBR Volume 16 Issue A6).

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Submission ReceivedDecember 8, 2015
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Subject: Global Journal of Management and Business Research - A: Administration & Management

Authors: Riffat Faizan, Nasreen Zehra (PhD/Dr. count: 0)

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