Impact of women’s participative leadership on employee sustainability and innovative behavior through mediating role of connectivity in Pakistani banking sector
Abstract
Today’s women are engaged in many industries in leading roles including the banking industry. This paper aims to investigate the impact of women’s participative leadership on employee sustainability and innovative behavior in banking industry of Pakistan with the mediating role of connectivity. The study is based on cross sectional data collected from bank employees at branches, areas, regions and head offices of domestic and foreign banks in Pakistan through a random sample. A quantitative approach has been adopted for this research. Questionnaires were collected from 254 employees of 26 banks through online survey, out of which 249 were found correct in all aspects. AMOS has been used to analyze the collected data. The results concluded that both direct and mediating effects of women’s participative leadership on employee sustainability is positive and significant. The results also depict that women’s participative leadership positively influences innovative behavior, however this impact is not significant. The effect of women’s participative leadership on employee innovative behavior turns out to be significant and positive through mediating role of “employee connectivity”. As the findings suggest that in Pakistan’s banking industry, women’s participative leadership style influences connectivity with employees which instigates innovative behavior of bank employees. The results explained that women’s participative leadership style fosters connectivity between the leader and subordinates, leading to employee sustainability in Pakistani banking sector. Thus the women’s participative leadership indoctrinates innovative behavior and employee sustainability through leader member connectivity in the banking sector employees of Pakistan.
Key Words: Women Leadership, participative leadership, banks, innovative behavior, connectivity, sustainability.
