Abstract:
The purpose of this study is to identify how the banking sector in Pakistan especially in
Karachi enhances the role of employee engagement through two antecedents that
leadership style and personality attributes.it also helps to enhance and promotes proactive
behavior that leads towards the organizational commitment, job satisfaction and
decreased rate ofturnover and off course maximize the degree of employee engagement.
This is the descriptive and explanatory type of research. A deductive approach is used as
our objective is to examine the already established concept. It is conducted the basis of
quantitative data and considered to be the most appropriate and effective one. It
represents the causal relationship between independent and dependent variable or the
impact of independent variables over the dependent variable, a well-developed
questionnaire is used to acquire information.5-point Likert scale utilize to collect data
from the respondents that are ranging from strongly disagree(l) to strongly agree(5). The
survey methodology is used to conduct this research that is feasible and cost saving as
well.
A simple linear regression was calculated in order to determine employee engagement
based on leadership styles and personality attributes. A significant and positive
relationship identified among the variables that indicates there is a significant relationship
with employee engagement and leadership styles(transformational and contingent
reward) and it has also positive relationship with personality attributes (extroversion and
conscientiousness)
However, this study is only related to banks. Only those banks are selected who are
operating in Karachi.it has no comparison with the banks operating in overall Pakistan.
Due to conducting in a single city (Karachi) the validity and the reliability of the newly
developed employee engagement scale might need to be reported and retested. It may
limit the generalizability ofthe results because the target population and sample size used
in this study is small to examine the association between employee engagement and the
two antecedents. Only two antecedents are selected: leadership style and personality
attributes to identify the level of employee engagement in banking sector.
In this research, two antecedents are used in relation to employee engagement. After
getting the results on the basis of collected data it has been recommended to the top
management of banking sector that is to select and hire those people who have
transformational competencies and skills. They must also include the personality test that
fosters the attributes of conscientiousness and extroversion.
