Transformational Leadership and Organizational Productivity: A Study in the Telecom Sector

This study examines the relationship between transformational leadership and organizational productivity in the telecom sector. It analyzes the impact of transformational leadership on employee motivation, job satisfaction, and self-efficacy. The research design includes both qualitative and quantitative methods, with a sample size of 18 years and above. The study aims to identify effective methods for analyzing transformational leadership reports and to explore the merits and demerits of different leadership styles in different sectors.

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Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................1
Project Objective.............................................................................................................................1
Project Scope...................................................................................................................................1
Literature Review............................................................................................................................1
Justification......................................................................................................................................2
Research Questions/hypothesis.......................................................................................................2
Research design and methodology..................................................................................................3
Qualitative Research....................................................................................................................3
Quantitative Research..................................................................................................................3
Sample Size.................................................................................................................................3
Sampling......................................................................................................................................3
Variables......................................................................................................................................4
Data Collection............................................................................................................................4
Data Analysis...................................................................................................................................4
Reliability & Validity......................................................................................................................4
Research Limitations.......................................................................................................................5
Expected Outcomes/Conclusion......................................................................................................5
Time Plan.........................................................................................................................................5
References........................................................................................................................................6
Appendix..........................................................................................................................................7

Introduction
With the modern business growth, there are stakeholders who need to understand about the
embracement of the leadership styles which are related to make sure that the organization is
considered to be productive. It highlights on the organizational management with proper setup of
the fields of business that tends to face a major impact on the change of world. Here, the
technology appears to be one of the critical factor that influence the modern environment. The
discussion will be about how organizations are able to enrich the mechanisms of leadership for a
better conducive market to work.
Project Objective
The objectives are based on maintaining the relationship that leads to the change in
transformational leadership with organizational performance development. The research helps in
analyzing the elements which directly influence the productivity path and there are aspects
related to how the employees are able to work in the firm with highlighting the factors that could
be effective for productivity.
Project Scope
The current study helps in examining the approach which is relevant to how the transformational
governance model and business productivity helps in motivating employees, satisfying the job
performances and the self-efficacy. There are certain other mediating factors for improving the
organizational productivity which will help on working with fulfillment of the environment and
how they tend to work.
Literature Review
The transformational leadership and the transactional leadership generally contradict, where
there are leaders who tend to make use of the rewards to help in rising the morale of the
employee. The transformation leaders are generally focusing on ensuring about creating an
environment that will inspire the different subjects for the performance (Boamah et al., 2018).
The objective is based on focusing on the motivation about how the workers can increase in
productivity. The leadership style is important where the model helps in dealing with firm
directions that is mainly to ensure about creating an understanding. The worker role is

determined through contributions which works with progression of responsibilities (Gorman et
al., 2018).
The fact is important for management in contemporary change in society, where the study
is about how the Telecom engineering companies are working with leadership influence that
affects the motivation of the employee (Grossman et al., 2018). The study helps in conducting a
better support with impact on productivity of workers through empowering and contentment with
managers. The influence of the work comes with environmental and the other relationship
factors. It includes the focus which is on how the organizational structure and administration
appears. The study is about how the Malaysian standards are able to assess the effectiveness of
transformative and transactional leadership plans that leads to productivity of workers (Hetland
et al., 2018). The leadership models generally helps in improving the role of employees with
better growth and productivity. The association is with the leaders and how they are able to
determine the extent to which the groups of people are able to match with the goals of
organization.
Justification
There are different literature gaps which includes how the transformational leaders work on the
productivity, gratification for the job, and the self-efficacy factor. The performance is mapped
with reviewing the styles of leadership which fails to give a proper evidence of transformed
leadership style in an organization. The literature tend to appear for inclining towards how the
focus is on the critical element setup and the productivity depends on the interplay (Igram et al.,
2018). The competitors and legal provisions are worked with conducting a study for
understanding different factors of performance. There are uses of different models which works
with tasked responsibilities with appropriate leadership style in order to make use of
organizations to direct towards the organizational future. It involves the intricate processes and
changes which are implying that the organizations require to work with most threatening aspects
of the modern business world (Kark, Van Dijk, D. and Vashdi, 2018).
Research Questions/hypothesis
Primary research questions

Q1. What is the major importance about transformational leadership in a job and how it can lead
to better productivity at work?
Secondary research questions
Q1: What are the effective methods to analyze the transformational leadership reports and how
they are used?
Q2: Are there any merits or demerits which are associated to the transformational and
transactional leadership in different sectors?
Research design and methodology
There have been variations which include how the qualitative and quantitative factors are able to
analyze the adoption of different mixed methods. It applied to leadership skills which are applied
by the employees in the company, mainly in telecom sector. The elements are related to
qualitative and quantitative collection of data methods.
Qualitative Research
The specifications are about how the data collection is able to understand the different aspects of
a system. The accounting procedures help in involvement of human behaviors with mixed
research that focus on gaining a better understanding for improved nature of accounting
information. It includes the open and the closed ended questions with research approach that will
be for data collected and analyzed.
Quantitative Research
The quantitative methods are depending upon well-structured policies with conducting the nature
of respondents. It is important to ensure about the interviews with different and same set of
questions. The comparisons are made in between the different leadership related factors that
helps in obtaining the answered in nan aggregated manner (Ng et al., 2018).
Sample Size
The sample relates to how 18 years of age people and above are included in the study. The
assurance is about the perceptions which are made for handling the sample solutions which can
easily be represented through the study of the population. The research is based on concerning
about the financial accounting and auditing procedures with decision making that is identified
through the researches which are able to draw upon the population (Taylor, 2017). The sample is

representative, and the population is being studied for properly interpreting about the different
factors o transactional leadership.
Sampling
The study highlights about the techniques which could be used for the interviews, and then
answering the different research questions. They are based on pilot study before the main study
so that one is able to determine the data collection and the effectiveness of the tools for the main
survey setup.
Variables
The variables are worked upon through the classification which is dependent and independent of
the age and the gender of the respondents. The independent variables work on holding the
business nature with analyzing the factors that tends to make use of different transactional and
transformational leadership system (Tepper et al., 2018).
Data Collection
The choice of the sample study is based on the different informed consent where the study is
then sent to the participants for the work factor. The purpose is based on improving the
participants and the responses which are considered to be confidential which is then compiled
with the views of the other participants. The questionnaires are sent to the respondents through
the email address with delivering the data by the research assistance (Willis et al., 2017). The
response is received from the interviews and then the questionnaires and the interviews will be
done and entered into MS Excel. The data is about SPSS with data analysis software with 5
Likert scale, with standard deviations.
Data Analysis
The analysis of the data is based on the questionnaires and how the data will be coded as
depending upon the export of information into SPSS versions with 17 data analysis. The 5-Likert
scale and standard deviations help in summarizing the results which are settled in the form of
tables, and charts where there are multilinear regression models to work with effectiveness of
financial reporting. Here, the analysis is about the effects of independent variables where the
information also concerns about the effects related to transactional leadership.

Reliability & Validity
The use of the mixed methods is generally found to be connected with the validity and the
reliability, where there are results which works on handling a complete conduct with secondary
data which works on not only carrying out the tests but also working with the leadership
standards of different engineering companies.
Research Limitations
The limitations of the research are based on the long-time factors with the effort that is needed to
focus on resources. The collection of information is to set out research questions where the
information is obtained and then it is not collaborating through possibility of discrepancy of
results. The respondents need to consider about the research with sound business enterprise that
will help in reaching out for the questionnaires that are sent to the people. There is a possibility
of the readers being biased when related to reading, writing and then using the services of
internet.
Expected Outcomes/Conclusion
The expected outcomes are about how the transactional leadership styles affect the performance
of the employees in the different sectors like telecom (Xenikou, 2017). The project has focused
on how one can work over the different transactional leadership styles for growing a strong
factors with measuring the work to ascertain about the rapid change of management.
Time Plan Month 1 Month 2 Month 3 Month 4 Month 5
Milestones Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Week 7 Week 8 Week 9 Week 10 Week 11 Week 12 Week 13 Week 14 Week 15 Week 16 Week 17 Week 18 Week 19 Week 20
Introduction
Designing problem
Designing Research objectives
Designing research structure
Literature Review
Analyzing concepts and models
Developing critical analysis
Identifying similar issues from industries
Methodology
Designing research approach
Designing research tools and techniques
Identifying secondary data collection method
Findings and Analysis
Developing themes
Interpreting data
Conclusion
Summary of research
Suitable recommendation
Figure 1: Time Schedule

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