مرکز منطقه ای اطلاع رساني علوم و فناوري - THE EFFECT OF PARTICIPATIVE LEADERSHIP ON TURNOVER INTENTIONS

Abstract :

The basis for good leadership is a respectable personality and unselfish service to employees and the organization. Participative leader behavior is a one effective tool to decrease turnover intent of an employee. Leadership style is one of the effective tools for managers to conduct employees to reach organizational goals and objectives. A participative leader must have a pioneering, imaginative and adventuresome mindset in order to empower employees to make decisions involving the organization. The cost of turnover is a great financial burden for companies. The cost of turnover in firms, which often includes opportunity costs, recruiting, retraining and reselection and decreased morale of existing employees, may result in serious losses to the firms Managers try to find ways to keep successful employees in their organizations. High turnover may be harmful to a company s productivity if skilled employees are often leaving and the employee population contains a high percentage of inexperienced workers. Thus, this study examines the relationship between participative leader behavior and turnover intentions in a sample of 150 employees from telecommunication industry. Results show that participative leadership significantly and negatively affects employee‟s turnover intentions. Namely, when employees perceive their manager‟s behavior as participative, they will tend to have lower intentions to leave that organization.