Dear Colleagues,
I am working on my master thesis with the topic of perceived leadership styles and its impact on employee engagement (or employee satisfaction) in the marketing research agencies.
I find out that there is scarce articles or journals in this particular business therefore I am not sure which type of leadership styles applied.
1. Is there a tool I can use to measure what type of leadership styles applied in the business (in my case is in the context of research agencies)? *preferable the free one
2. Also the free measure for employee engagement?
3. Between employee satisfaction and employee engagement, which one is better to explore in my thesis? (I am still unsure with the idea of both)
4. Can anyone give me some suggestion (or references) to me on similar topics about leadership styles that may relevance to this particular business agencies?
The fact that there is a scarce articles or journals in this particular business is an advantage for your thesis. I recommend you need to find out what is the most common leadership styles used...
1. Is there a tool I can use to measure what type of leadership styles applied in the business (in my case is in the context of research agencies)? *preferable the free one
You can refer to this RG link:
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Can_anyone_recommend_an_instrument_for_measuring_leadership_skills
2. Also the free measure for employee engagement?
You can google search this construct / variable or refer to this link:
https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&ei=hrzyWriNNIrevATm6LhQ&q=employee+engagement+survey+questionnaire+instrument&oq=employee+engagement+survey+questionnaire+instrument&gs_l=psy-ab.3..33i160k1l3.9295.22293.0.22745.66.40.4.19.19.0.339.4377.3j20j5j1.29.0....0...1c.1.64.psy-ab..15.51.4359.0..0j35i39k1j0i67k1j0i131i67k1j0i131k1j0i13k1j0i10k1j0i22i30k1j33i22i29i30k1j33i21k1.0.HAGBP7OZmzY
3. Between employee satisfaction and employee engagement, which one is better to explore in my thesis? (I am still unsure with the idea of both)
Sounds like employee satisfaction / employee engagement might be your Dependent Variable (DV) - perhaps you need perform rigorous literature review on this DV & what is the research problem you try to address / study and what is your research objective(s). These 2 critical items can drive you on the right track to perform the rigorous literature review.
4. Can anyone give me some suggestion (or references) to me on similar topics about leadership styles that may relevance to this particular business agencies?
There are numerous leadership styles / theories in various leadership text books that you can refer to - may be you need to perform more literature review on this topic. Popular leadership styles are included in diagram attached.
hope these links are useful
https://www.smuc.edu.et/.../cphere/papers-on-ethiopian-pheis?...the...
etd.uum.edu.my/2682/
erepo.usiu.ac.ke/bitstream/handle/.../57/Elizabeth_Ndethiu.pdf?...1
regards
Thank you all for your responses.
After some reading I decided to go with 1 additional point, so my dependent variable (DV) will be the same "employee engagement - EE" and my independent variables (IV) leadership styles-LS and organizational cultures-OC.
My research objectives are to answer these hypotheses:
1. LS has more positive relationship than OC towards EE
2. OC has more positive relationship towards EE
3. There is a linear relationship between IV (both LS & OC) DV
Any advice for other potential hypothesis I can explore?
I found a new measurement for employee engagement (written in a PHD disertation) and I have tried to find other citation of the paper but I can't find one (my assumption is no one has not use it yet for other study).
My question is, can I use it for my study or is it better to use the known tools as suggested above?
For OC, I plan to use Hofstede questionnair. Since Hofstede is more on the country/national culture level, can I use it for study on organizational culture level?
Really appreciate any responses and thank you in advance.
I suggest that LS can be treated as organizatonal level while engagement can be treated as employee level. You can analyse the multilevel data by utilizng hierarchical linear modelling (HLM) via HLM software programme.
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