Effect of Global Paternalistic Leadership Style on Burnout and Psychological Contract Among Employees
Abstract
This study investigated the predicive role global paternalistic leadership styles for psychological contract and burnout;also study the role of education level, professions and gender of employees on study variables. 400 employees were taken as sample of the study through convinent sampling technique from government Banks and Universities of Hazara District. Psychological Contract Inventory (Rousseau, 2000), Global Paternalistic Leadership Scale (Cheng et al., 2004) and Copenhagen Burnout Inventory (Kristensen, et al., 2005) were used for data collection. Results indicated that authoritarian style predicted significantly burnout in positive way (create 19% variance), significant negatively predicted by benevolent (create 4% variance), while non-significantly predicted by moral-character style. Similarly, psychological contract is significantly positively predicted by authoritarian style (create 29% variance), significantly negatively predicted by both benevolent style (create 23%) and moral-character style (14%). Male employees have higher level of psychological contract and use more authoritarian leadership than female employees. Bankers prefer authoritarian style while universities administration staff prefer benevolent style. Results indicated that higher educated employees use benevolent and moral-character leadership style and have higher levels of burnout, while lower educated employees prefer authoritarian style.
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