TY - GEN
T1 - Leadership Styles and Workplace Wellness Among Ghanaian SME Workers
AU - Dartey-Baah, Kwasi
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - This paper investigates the relationship between leadership styles and the quality of work life (QWL) among small and medium enterprises (SMEs) workers in Ghana. A cross-sectional design was used with standardized questionnaires to collect data. Both the simple random sampling and purposive sampling techniques were adopted to select respondents. A total sample of 200 respondents was engaged. The research findings suggest a positive relationship between QWL and transformational leadership style (r =.63, p =.000) with ‘idealized influence’ a dimension of transformational leadership significantly correlating with QWL. Transactional leadership style also had a positive relationship with QWL (r =.53, p =.000) although moderate. This suggests that in a developing country setting like Ghana, more exchange (give and take) form of relationships enhance employee quality of work life which is contrary to what pertains in other jurisdictions. Furthermore, males and females did not differ significantly on their QWL.
AB - This paper investigates the relationship between leadership styles and the quality of work life (QWL) among small and medium enterprises (SMEs) workers in Ghana. A cross-sectional design was used with standardized questionnaires to collect data. Both the simple random sampling and purposive sampling techniques were adopted to select respondents. A total sample of 200 respondents was engaged. The research findings suggest a positive relationship between QWL and transformational leadership style (r =.63, p =.000) with ‘idealized influence’ a dimension of transformational leadership significantly correlating with QWL. Transactional leadership style also had a positive relationship with QWL (r =.53, p =.000) although moderate. This suggests that in a developing country setting like Ghana, more exchange (give and take) form of relationships enhance employee quality of work life which is contrary to what pertains in other jurisdictions. Furthermore, males and females did not differ significantly on their QWL.
KW - Ghana
KW - Quality of Work Life (QWL)
KW - Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
KW - Transactional leadership
KW - Transformational leadership
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-20154-8_52
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-20154-8_52
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85069206067
SN - 9783030201531
T3 - Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
SP - 561
EP - 572
BT - Advances in Human Factors, Business Management and Leadership - Proceedings of the AHFE 2019 International Conference on Human Factors, Business Management and Society, and the AHFE International Conference on Human Factors in Management and Leadership
A2 - Kantola, Jussi Ilari
A2 - Nazir, Salman
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - AHFE International Conference on Human Factors, Business Management and Society, and the AHFE International Conference on Human Factors in Management and Leadership, 2019
Y2 - 24 July 2019 through 28 July 2019
ER -
