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Leadership Styles and Quality of Work Life in Small and Medium Scale Enterprises of Kumoun Region of Uttarakhand


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The present study tries to identify the relationship between leadership styles and quality of work life of the employees of SMEs. The study was conducted in 30 SMEs of Kumoun region of Uttarakhand. The main tool used in this study was questionnaire. Two leadership styles i.e. transformational and transactional leadership and eight constraints of quality of work life i.e. salary structure, health and safety, developmental opportunities, job security, social cohesion, individual rights, social communication, and the work and overall living space are considered and analysed. The result shows that organisations needs to provide equal salary for same kind of work, must ensure job security of employees and provides more individual rights so that employees will be able to improve their work life balance.

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Leadership, Transformational Leadership, Transactional Leadership, Quality of Work Life.
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Hem Chandra Bhatt
School of Management, Doon University, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India

Abstract


The present study tries to identify the relationship between leadership styles and quality of work life of the employees of SMEs. The study was conducted in 30 SMEs of Kumoun region of Uttarakhand. The main tool used in this study was questionnaire. Two leadership styles i.e. transformational and transactional leadership and eight constraints of quality of work life i.e. salary structure, health and safety, developmental opportunities, job security, social cohesion, individual rights, social communication, and the work and overall living space are considered and analysed. The result shows that organisations needs to provide equal salary for same kind of work, must ensure job security of employees and provides more individual rights so that employees will be able to improve their work life balance.

Keywords


Leadership, Transformational Leadership, Transactional Leadership, Quality of Work Life.

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