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The Relationship Between Leadership Styles And Call Center Workers’ Organizational Commitment, Andrea L. Lamar Jan 2023

The Relationship Between Leadership Styles And Call Center Workers’ Organizational Commitment, Andrea L. Lamar

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

The call center industry is instrumental in servicing the consumer in many facets of service-oriented presales and aftersales support. Little is known about the relationship between leadership styles, call center workers, and organizational commitment. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between leadership styles transformational, transactional, laissez-faire, and outcomes of leadership with organizational commitment in a call center environment. Using Survey Monkey, a data collection agency, a nonprobability convenience sampling procedure was used to select the 350 call center workers' samples. The analysis used was Pearson's correlation and multiple regression. The study used multifactor leadership and organizational …


The Relationship Between Leadership Styles And Call Center Workers’ Organizational Commitment, Andrea L. Lamar Jan 2023

The Relationship Between Leadership Styles And Call Center Workers’ Organizational Commitment, Andrea L. Lamar

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

The call center industry is instrumental in servicing the consumer in many facets of service-oriented presales and aftersales support. Little is known about the relationship between leadership styles, call center workers, and organizational commitment. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between leadership styles transformational, transactional, laissez-faire, and outcomes of leadership with organizational commitment in a call center environment. Using Survey Monkey, a data collection agency, a nonprobability convenience sampling procedure was used to select the 350 call center workers' samples. The analysis used was Pearson's correlation and multiple regression. The study used multifactor leadership and organizational …


Leadership Strategies To Improve Business Performance In The Information Technology Industry, Edward Turay Jan 2023

Leadership Strategies To Improve Business Performance In The Information Technology Industry, Edward Turay

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Ineffective leadership adversely affects performance at both the organizational and individual levels. Information technology (IT) leaders are concerned about ineffective leadership because it can result in the deterioration of employee morale, an increase in employee turnover, and decreased profitability. Grounded in Herzberg’s two-factor motivation theory, the purpose of this qualitative single case study was to explore leadership strategies managers in the IT industry use to improve business performance. The six participants were senior and mid-level managers of two IT firms in Beirut, Lebanon who had at least 5 years of experience managing their organization’s leadership strategies. Data were collected using …