Study of Leadership style, Coping Strategies and Happiness in Academic Employees and Corporate Employees
Journal Title: International Journal of Research in Social Sciences - Year 2018, Vol 8, Issue 2
Abstract
Any successful organization today is based on its leadership style and behavior. Leadership behavior has a critical role in any successful organizations (Larsson & Vinberg, 2010). Positive leaders and the coping strategies used by them can influence their followers and make them happy; which will be reflected in their performance and productivities of the organization positively. The present study focuses on Leadership Style, Coping Strategies and Happiness among academic and corporate employees. The aim of this study is to find out 1. Which leadership style and coping strategies is being preferred by academic and corporate employees; 2. Relationship between Leadership Style, Coping Strategies and Happiness between academic and corporate employees. Data has been collected from 40 academic employees and 40 corporate employees from Amity University, Haryana and Bangalore city by purposive sampling. Participants were assessed on Leadership Style Scale by Northouse (2009), Ways of Coping Questionnaire by Folkman and Lazarus (1980) and Oxford Happiness Questionnaire by Argyle and Hills (2002). Anova and correlation has been used. The results indicate: 1. The most preferred leadership style is democratic leadership by academic as well as corporate employees and the most preferred coping strategies is positive reappraisal and the next one is self-controlling by both the employees; 2. There is a significant relationship between democratic leadership style, confronting coping strategies and happiness.
Authors and Affiliations
Dr. Kamini C. Tanwar And Ms. Priyanka
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