Abstract
This research paper identifies the impact of leadership styles on
organizational workers’ stress. The aim is to determine if there
is a significant impact of overall leadership on work stress and
if there is any difference in such an impact based on different
leadership styles. It further proposes that the Big Five
personality dimensions can play the role of either mediators or
moderators between these relationships. After reviewing the
literature, four research questions were developed and four
hypotheses were proposed in the study. The Multifactor
Leadership Questionnaire and Stress Diagnostic Survey
instrument were used to find out the relationship between
leadership styles and their impact on employees’ stress.
Positivist research paradigm was followed using the survey
method and the study is explanatory. The dependent variable is
work stress, while the independent variable is leadership style.
The research design comprises of a cross-section survey of the
population with a total sample size of 364 managers belonging
to 34 organizations operating in Pakistan. Cronbach’s Alpha
was calculated to determine the internal reliability of the
questionnaires. Pearson Correlation method was initially used
to see the impacts of various leadership styles on organizational
stress. The direct effect of leadership was ascertained by the
results, thus, completely supporting H1 and H2. To test H3,
moderation test was run to find if Big Five personality traits
moderate the relationship between leadership and work Stress.
H3 was partially supported. H4 was developed to check if
personality played a mediating role between leadership style
and stress. The bootstrap method was used to test this
hypothesis and findings show insignificant mediation, hence H5
was rejected.
Aly Raza Syed, Khaliq Ur Rehman, Naveda Kitchlewv. (2018) Impact of Perceived Leadership Style on Employees’ Work Stress: Moderating and Mediating Role Big 5 Personality Traits, Paradigms , Vol 12, Issue 1.
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