Impact of leadership styles on employees behaviour

This research aims to determine the impact of leadership styles on employees behaviour in the context of Unilever. It explores the role of leadership in guiding and motivating employees, and the value of understanding this relationship. The study will provide valuable insights for both leaders and organizations.

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SECTION 1: Coversheet
Researcher's name
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Researcher's School
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SECTION 2: Checklist
Please circle your response to each of the following questions:
Does the research involve participation of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander people who
have been selected as research participants because they are indigenous Australians?
YES / NO
Does the research involve any artifacts that are of cultural, spiritual or religious
significance to Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander people? YES / NO
Does the research involve an unusually dependent relationship between the researcher
and any of the research participants? NO
Could the research place research participants in an unusually vulnerable situation? YES
/ NO
Is there any potential risk (physical, emotional, social or legal) to individual participants'
well being, beyond that normally encountered in everyday life, as a result of their YES
/ NO
involvement in the research?
Does the research involve the administration or application of drugs and/or Clinical Trial
Notification Scheme (CTN) documentation? YES
/ NO
Is there any reasonable likelihood that the research will result in the reporting of
suspected child abuse? YES / NO
Is there any potential risk to the researcher's safety, beyond that normally encountered in
everyday life, as a result of their involvement in the research? YES / NO
Do you plan to vary the usual written consent processes? YES
/ NO
Is the study known to involve research into illegal activities? YES
/ NO
Does the study have potential legal implications for the researcher or the Institute? YES
/ NO
Have you applied for funding for this research (other than Divisional funds)? YES
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If YES, please give the name of granting body applied to and the type of grant sought.
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Please answer the remaining questions
What research methodologies will you use (tick those applicable)
Anonymous questionnaires √ Questionnaires requesting intimate personal,
identifying, or sensitive information
Internet questionnaires
Other questionnaires
Face to face interviews which do not request
personal or sensitive information
Face to face interviews which request personal
or sensitive information
Observation of participant's usual activities Focus groups
Observation of an activity set up for the
purposes of the study
Action Research
Access to medical records (or records which
contain intimate personal information, and
Experiment or testing of a procedure, drug or
equipment
are individually identifiable and are not publicly
available)
Other (please specify)
Please tick the group/s from which your sample of participants will be drawn for this study
General public Children or young people under the age of 18
Friends or family Patients of a hospital or clinic where you need
approval to do the research
Work colleagues √ Prisoners or people in the care of correctional
services
People with whom you have an ongoing
professional relationship (e.g. students or
clients)
Members of the armed forces
Other (please specify) Employees of targeted
organisations
In which country is data collection to take place? __________Australia________________
List the organisations where the research will Azure Entertainment
be undertaken. (Please note that written
approval from all organisations must be
obtained before the research can commence).
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Will the research involve access to individuals, clients or records required from any organisation? YES / NO
If YES, has approval been received from these organisations? YES / NO
Will you access individually identifiable information about participants from any
government department? YES / NO
or
from another organisation (for example a state based register, education department,
hospital, health department, correctional services)? YES / NO
If YES, list the government department(s) and/or organization(s)
Have you received approval to access this information from the government
department(s)/organization(s) listed above? YES / NO
Are the following appendices attached?
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Asrar-ul-Haq, M. and Kuchinke, K.P., 2016. Impact of
leadership styles on employees’ attitude towards their leader and
performance: Empirical evidence from Pakistani banks. Future
Business Journal. 2(1). pp.54-64.
Fiaz, M., Su, Q. and Saqib, A., 2017. Leadership styles and
employees' motivation: Perspective from an emerging
economy. The Journal of Developing Areas. 51(4). pp.143-156.
Abdelhafiz, I.M., Alloubani, A.M.D. and Almatari, M., 2016.
Impact of leadership styles adopted by head nurses on job
satisfaction: a comparative study between governmental and
private hospitals in Jordan. Journal of nursing
management. 24(3). pp.384-392.
Al Khajeh, E.H., 2018. Impact of leadership styles on
organizational performance. Journal of Human Resources
Management Research, 2018, pp.1-10.
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Study 1
Email or Flyer Header
Invitation to participate in a study…...
Email Body
To employees of _______________
You are invited to consider participating in a study that will
explore how you experience aspects of your leader – things like
leadership styles and organisational outcomes like job
satisfaction and corporate reputation, and how you respond to
these aspects.
If you are a current employee of your organisation and work in a
position which allows you to interact directly with your
organisational leader and you are willing to participate in the
research, I would love to hear from you.
Please contact………….(primary researcher) at or email at
…….to indicate your possible interest in the study, noting that
this is not a commitment to participate. You will be contacted
and provided you with a Participant Information Form and
address any questions you might have about the study. If you
then agree you will be given information about arrangements for
contributing to the study.
If you are interested in participating in the study and would like
to learn more, please contact……. Please note that the study has
received ethics approval from the Excelsia College Ethics
Committee, Approval no: 2020-xxx
Thank you for your consideration of this invitation.
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NB This is an inclusive information form that will be selectively excerpted for specific
studies within the program of research.
PARTICIPANT INFORMATION FORM
Title: To determine impact of leadership styles on employees behaviour.
A Study on Unilever.
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Primary Researcher:
What is the purpose of the research?
The main purpose of conducting present investigation is
that this determine the leadership styles on which help in guide
the employees and also provide the right direction to be work.
On the other hand, conducting present investigation helps to
learner in providing the detailed understanding about particular
area. This also helped learner in enhancing the skills and core
competencies in conducting am investigation.
Who is eligible to participate in this study?
The employees of Unilever are eligible to participate in
present study.
What is expected of you in this study?
From conducting this investigation, learner can be aware
about the different concepts and the ways to leading employees
at workplace. It helps to a learner in providing the guidance to
perform similar kind of investigation in future.
How will your information be used and distributed?
The information will be used in performing similar kind
of information in future and this will be distributed through
emails.
Ethical Approval
This study has been reviewed by the Human Research Ethics
Committee of Excelsia College. If you have any concerns or
complaints regarding the way this research has been conducted,
you can contact the Excelsia Ethics Officer,
Thank you for your assistance and support this research.
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Date:
To,
Subject:
Dear Sir,
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I would like to inform you that this study is only for academic
purpose. The results from this study will be presented in a
written thesis. If you wish to receive a synopsis of the results
from this study, you can contact any one of the following
persons:
Primary researcher:
I look forward to getting your favourable response.
Sincerely,
(Signature)
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Language of the consent form, information sheet
and any other material provided to research participants
if other than English.
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How do you intend to report your research?
Thesis/dissertation √ Conference presentation
Journal article/s Commissioned report
Research paper Other (please specify)
Will research participants have the opportunity to receive a copy of your final report if they wish? YES / NO
Will research participants receive any payment in relation to their participation? YES / NO
(Adapted from http://www.unisanet.unisa.edu.au/Resources/workshop-Ethics%20Protocol/Ethics%20Protocol/EthicsProposal.doc)
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SECTION 3: Detailed description of the research
(Adapted from http://www.unisanet.unisa.edu.au/Resources/workshop-Ethics%20Protocol/Ethics%20Protocol/EthicsProposal.doc)
To be completed as a separate document and attached to Sections 1 and 2.
1.1 State the aims of your research To determine impact of
leadership styles on
employees behaviour. A
Study on Unilever.
1.2 Explain the need for, and value of, your research. The need for conducting
investigation is to know
about the role of
leadership and the style
chosen for guiding the
employees. In regards to
this, leaders plays a
necessary role in an
organisation that helps in
provide the right
direction to employees
and the team members.
This is helpful for the
company to motivating
employees and also
sustain them at
workplace for longer
time period. The value of
investigation is that it
provides the detailed
understanding the
particular area. The
leaders assist themselves
and also others to do
right things. They set the
direction, develop
inspiring vision and
develop the new things.
The leaders set direction
as they should use the
management skills to be
guide the people to right
direction in an effective
manner. It is necessary to
an organisation to keep
the each one on similar
page and assist prepare
the certain kind of the
leaders for future.
Company could be filter
for the leaders who
mainly meet financial
objectives that means
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only the leaders that can
be prioritise things
would be promoted in
firm. The main focus of
a leader is on enhancing
the profit level and also
earning the money that
would not be fare better
in firm that focused on
developing the
empathetic leaders.
The employee behaviour
is mainly explained the
reaction of employees to
specific condition in an
organisation. There is a
requirement to staff
members to behave in
sensible manner in an
organisation not gain the
respect as well as
appreciation from others
but maintain healthy
workplace culture. The
better leadership helps in
improving culture of
company and also
motivate the staff
members so that they can
work effectively for
attaining set objectives.
2.1 List your research questions or hypotheses. Research Objectives
 To examine the
role of leaders in
increasing the
morale of
employees at
workplace.
 To determine the
different styles of
leadership used
by leaders.
 To examine the
different facts
impacting on the
employees
behaviour?
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Research Questions
 What is the role
of leaders in
increasing the
morale of
employees at
workplace.
 What are the
different styles of
leadership used
by leaders.
 What are the
different facts
impacting on the
employees
behaviour?
2.2 Outline your research design and methodology. The research design is
framework or blueprint
of overall strategy that
select to be integrate
various components of
study. This constitutes
blueprint for gathering,
measuring and also
analysing data. There are
different research design
such as descriptive,
experimental and
explanatory. In
conducting the present
investigation, there will
be descriptive research
design used as this helps
in provide the detailed
understanding about the
specific subject area. Its
main aim is to
systematically as well as
accurately explain
population or the
situation. This research
design is used as this
indicated through
through the research.
This mainly consists an
investigator to include an
investigator in observing
the recoding specific
behaviour.
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There will be
quantitative research
method used as it is
effective in providing the
facts and figures related
to particular area. This
method can help in
generalise from the
larger population. The
quantitative investigation
uses the quantifiable data
in order to articulate the
facts in an investigation.
There will be positivism
research philosophy used
as this is based on the
quantitative method as
this will help in
analysing the opinions
and viewpoints of the
different authors
effectively. This is
helpful in provide the
general to specific
information and getting
the positive outcomes.
There will be the
deductive research
approach used as it is
effective in finding out
the authentic and reliable
information that helps in
getting the positive
outcomes effectively.
This research approach is
based on the quantitative
research method.
Research strategy is
helpful in provide the
methods to collection of
relevant as well as
reliable information.
There will be survey
used as the better
research strategy as it is
more reliable. It consists
the different questions on
the particular subject
area effectively. This
research strategy is more
time saving and the cost
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saving.
Data collection is related
to collection of
information by using the
different sources. For
collection of
information, there will be
primary method used and
in this questionnaire used
as this provides the
detailed information
regarding the particular
subject area. This
method is time saving
and the cost saving also.
Other than this,
secondary method of
data collection will be
used to collect the
information in literature
review part by using the
different sources such as
books, articles, journals,
scholars and others.
Sampling is related to
collect the sample size
for gathering the data
and effective information
regarding specific
subject area. There will
be 30 respondents
chosen about by using
the random sampling
method.
2.3 Indicate whether your research is the first stage of a larger project. This research is at the
first stage as this
consider the research
ethical form. As this
helps in provide the
permission to carried out
the investigation.
Research ethics is related
to the norms, values,
morals, ethics used by
the researcher while
conducting the
investigation. It is
necessary to a researcher
to perform all the
research activities by
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following the ethical
principles and
guidelines. This will
helps in develop the
positive impact on
performance level.
3.1 Who will be approached or recruited to be research participants? How
many participants will be involved in your study?
In order to collect the
sample size, there will be
30 respondents chosen
and they are the
managers of company.
The managers know that
how to motivate the
employees and also
aware about the
performance level of all
the staff members. As
they are aware about the
behaviour of employees
and ways adopted to
sustain them at
workplace for longer
time period.
3.2 List the selection and, if appropriate to your study, the exclusion
criteria for participants.
In this exclusion criteria
for the participant's is
that as they will provide
the information about
behaviour of employees.
Some of the managers
are not experienced.
3.3 How will you recruit volunteers for your research? It is necessary for an
investigator to find out
the effective way to hire
the employees. The
sampling is process that
used in the statistical
analysis under which the
pre identified
observations number are
taken from large
population.
Methodology mainly
used to sample from the
large number of
population that is based
on type of the analysis
that is being performed.
There are probabilistic
and non- probabilistic
two different type of
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sampling methods.
In this present
investigation, there will
be probabilistic sampling
method used as in this
random sampling
method chosen. The
random sample is subset
of people that chosen
randomly through an
investigators to represent
the whole group as
whole. Its main objective
is to get sample of the
people that should be
representative of large
population. The main
reason behind selecting
this method is that it
provides the equal
chance to all the chosen
respondents and remove
biasness. On the other
hand, randomly choosing
members of sample is
necessary as this asides
to prevent the bias of
outcomes.
3.4 How will you provide detailed information about your study to
potential participants? It is the responsibility of
an investigator to
provide the detailed
information regarding
the research to the
potential participants.
They have the right to
know about the the
research outcomes
effectively as they are
involved in the research
and provide the
information to the
researcher about
particular subject area.
To inform the
participants, there will
be email and the
presentation used to give
the detailed information
regarding the study.
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3.5 Describe how you will obtain consent to participate from those
volunteering as participants for your research.
The informed consent is
founding principle of the
research ethics. Its intent
is that the human
respondents can enter in
an investigation freely
with the full information
regarding to take part.
The participants are
participate volunteering
for investigation as for
obtain the consent.
Obtaining the consent
consists informing
subject regarding rights
of participants, purpose
of study, procedure need
to be undertaken,
benefits to the
participants and others.
The valid informed
consent for an
investigation should
consists the main
elements such as
disclosure of the
information, competency
to make decision and
also voluntary nature of
decision. The guidelines
for process of informed
consent for the
biomedical investigation
is clear a although the
execution can be more
challenging. An
investigator should
assure that consent
process has been better
through communication
with participant using
the understandable
language and through
providing the participant
as effective opportunity
to ask the questions and
assessing understanding
of participant
information that can be
shared.
3.6 If your research participants will be drawn from any dependent group
(people who have an unequal power relationship with you or with an
organisation which is cooperating in the research) please detail how
In this investigation, if
the research participants
will be drawn from any
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will you ensure that participants do not feel under any obligation to
assist you with your research as participants. dependent group, then it
is necessary to provide
the equal responsibility
to them. It will be ensure
to the researcher that the
respondents do not feel
in any of obligation to
help with the
investigation as the
participants.
3.7 Describe how you will preserve participants' confidentiality as you
collect and analyse the data and when you report the results.
Confidentiality is related
to condition in which an
investigator knowns
identity of an
investigation subject but
this tales place the
necessary steps to be
protect that the identity
from searched through
the others. It is necessary
that the identity of an
investigator should be
confidential or not to be
leaked in front of
anyone. Maintaining the
confidentiality in an
investigation poses
number of the
challenges. An
investigator should have
measurably in place for
protect such kind of
information that
accessed through anyone
other than authorised in
protocol through
participant.
3.8 If there are any potential risks (physical, emotional, social or legal) to
individual participants' well being (beyond those normally
encountered in everyday life) as a result of their involvement in the
research, detail the steps that will be taken to address these risks
including any support facilities such as counselling, debriefings or
referrals.
The investigation should
not be harm participants. If
there is possibility that the
participants could be
harmed or put in discomfort
position then there should
be the strong justification
for it. The harm can be
related to physical,
psychological discomfort,
social disadvantage,
psychological distress,
privacy and others. To
address all these risks, it is
necessary to an
investigator to take some
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of the effective steps.
Some steps are given
below:
 Additional planning
to be illustrate how
the participant
harm will be
minimised.
 Informed consent
 Detailed debriefing
The main purpose of an
investigation is to search
the new information which
would be helpful for the
society. It should never be
hurt any person or find
information at expense of
other people. Other than
this, for reduce the risk of
harm that require to be
think since an investigator
does not go out
intentionally to cause the
harm. It is necessary to
obtain the informed
consent from the
participants. It is necessary
to avoiding the deceptive
practices at the time of
designing an investigation.
Provide the participants
with right to be withdraw
from an investigation at
any of time.
3.9
If there are any potential safety implications for yourself as the
researcher (beyond those normally encountered in everyday life)
please indicate how these will be addressed.
It is necessary that
researcher do not harm
the participants as this
develop the negative
impact on the research
outcomes.
3.10 If research participants will receive any payment, reimbursement or
other benefit from participation in the research, please detail this and
provide a justification for the level of compensation.
If in case the research
participants will receive any
payment, reimbursement
or other benefit from
participation in the
research, then it is just the
compensation. The
researcher given them
payment regarding their
work as this helps in
motivate them to be work
effectively.
4.1 Describe briefly how the research data will be recorded, for example,
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audiotape, videotape, or written notes.
The researcher will collect
data by using primary and
the secondary method. In
the primary method, data
and information will be
collected by using the
questionnaire. As it is time
saving as well as cost
saving. On the other hand,
secondary method of data
collection will be used in
achieving the research
objectives in literature
review. The research data
will be recorded by use of
the written notes and the
video tape in detailed
manner. All the records
related to conduct of
project are necessary
consisting those which
document management of
investigation funds as well
as the intellectual property.
4.2 Describe what you will do with the recorded data once it has been
analysed. After analysing the
recorded data once, it will
be kept. This data will help
the other researcher or the
learner to conduct similar
kind of investigation. This
will help in provide the
relevant information to
them regarding the
particular subject area.
4.3 Specify who apart from yourself (and your supervisors if applicable)
will have access to the research data and results, and any conditions
to be placed on that access.
In the research, there are
many stakeholders
involved such as
researcher, participants,
investors and the others. It
is the responsibility of an
investigator to
communicate the proper
findings and outcomes to
the all stakeholders. Apart
from the researcher and
supervisor, investors and
participants will have the
proper access to research
data and the outcomes.
5.1 Detail who will own the data and the results of your research.
The researcher and
supervisor will own the
data and the outcomes of
investigation. As they are
the main participants in an
investigation and they have
the detailed understanding
about it. They work well
and also getting the
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positive outcomes of an
investigation.
Timelines of the research study
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