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Role of Leadership and Organizational Vision in Inducing Employee Psychological Attachment Towards the Organization


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Employees often join and stay because they believe in the ideals and inspiration of the leadership and the vision of the organization. This study aims to empirically investigate the effect of leadership and organizational vision on inducing psychological attachment among the Indian Information Technology companies' employees. Survey data was obtained from 268 employees of Indian IT companies. A scale to measure employees' satisfaction level on the organization leadership level and vision was developed and validated. A structured questionnaire was used amongst respondents and the collected data was analyzed using multiple regression analysis technique to test the hypothesis. Regression analysis shows that a caring and strong leadership and clear vision of an organization has significant effect on the employees' positive psychological attachment with an organization.

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Corporate Social Responsibility, Leadership, Organization Goal, Organization Vision, Psychological Attachment.
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Jharana Rani Pattnaik
Vignan Institute of Technology and Management (VITAM), Berhampur, Odisha, India

Abstract


Employees often join and stay because they believe in the ideals and inspiration of the leadership and the vision of the organization. This study aims to empirically investigate the effect of leadership and organizational vision on inducing psychological attachment among the Indian Information Technology companies' employees. Survey data was obtained from 268 employees of Indian IT companies. A scale to measure employees' satisfaction level on the organization leadership level and vision was developed and validated. A structured questionnaire was used amongst respondents and the collected data was analyzed using multiple regression analysis technique to test the hypothesis. Regression analysis shows that a caring and strong leadership and clear vision of an organization has significant effect on the employees' positive psychological attachment with an organization.

Keywords


Corporate Social Responsibility, Leadership, Organization Goal, Organization Vision, Psychological Attachment.

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