"Fueling or Alleviating the Flame: Unraveling the Impact of Leadership Styles on Workplace Well-being in the Workplace”

Abstract

The paper explored the impact of leadership style on the workplace wellbeing in the service sector of India. Sector was grouped into six categories; Banking, Education, Hospital, IT & ITES, Manufacturing units, and Hospitality. A questionnaire distribution method was used to conduct this research study. Total 450 questionnaire was sent out of which 400 respondents were included in study who was professional employees in different service sectors of India. The findings of this paper reveal that the autocratic leadership style distort the environment of the organization with the rigid rules and despotic behavior. Due to the presence of such behavior in organization, employees get demotivated and their performance was lower downs. Employees have feeling of contentment and persuaded towards their chores under the leader, who adopted democratic style. They feel affinity and sense of belongingness towards the workplace. The findings show that group adherents were more inclined to leave the group and divert their resources to other places when they were overseen by an autocratic leader as opposed to a democratic leader. Most of the group members were left an autocrat style leader than a democratic one, regardless of whether they acknowledged positive personal favors from the leader. This suggests that the procedural components of an autocratic style leader are more dangerous than the distributive ones. Therefore, autocratic leadership is not an appropriate long-term solution for the welfare of the workforce and its employees.