Abstract:
There are different leadership styles available; some leadership styles focus on interpersonal relationship known as employee-oriented leadership other leadership styles focus on completion of tasks known as production-oriented leadership. To some extent they all relate to gender, because they reflect masculinity/femininity dimensions of gender, stereotype. Only two leadership styles are focused in this study, which are Transformational and Transactional leadership styles. This dissertation is attempts to empirically evaluate leadership styles, to analyze and identify the gender influence on leadership styles, how male and female leaders rate themselves and how the subordinates rate them.
The universe of study is education sector of Islamabad. In total 60 respondents participated in the study, including 30 male and 30 female, whereas 120 subordinates also participated in the study. The data was collected through questionnaires and analyzed using the Statistical methods including descriptive statistics and Independent-Sample T-Test.
The analysis showed leaders frequently exhibit transformational style in order to perform their job duties as compared to transactional leadership style. Secondly, there is no significant difference between leadership style of male and female leaders. Finally, female leaders rate themselves significantly higher in transformational leadership than the subordinate rate them. There is no difference in whether male leaders rate themselves or their subordinates rate them in transformational leadership style.
