Research Proposal: Leadership Impact on Employee Performance in IT

This research proposal aims to identify the influence of leadership on increasing employee productivity and performance within the IT sector, focusing on a study of Waracle. The proposal outlines the project's objectives, which include analyzing the impact of leadership on boosting employee performance and efficiency, identifying leadership challenges faced by Waracle, and determining ways to mitigate these issues. Research questions address the impact of leadership, the challenges faced, and potential mitigation strategies. The rationale emphasizes the importance of understanding how leaders contribute to employee performance and productivity. The methodology employs a positivism research philosophy, probability sampling, quantitative research, primary and secondary data collection, a survey strategy, and questionnaire-based data collection analyzed using frequency distribution techniques. Potential outcomes include insights into effective leadership practices and strategies for overcoming leadership challenges to improve employee performance and productivity within IT companies.

Research proposal
To identify the influence of leadership on increasing the
productivity and performance of employees within IT
sector

Content
• INTRODUCTION TO THE PROJECT
• BRIEF LITERATURE REVIEW
• METHODOLOGY
• POTENTIAL OUTCOMES
• A CONCEPTUAL MAP
• GANTT CHART
• RISK REGISTER

Overview of the topic
• In the current digital era, leadership is very important concept as it encourages
the subordinate to work in effective and efficient manner. Leadership is the
ability of a person or a group of people influencing and guiding the followers of
the company to work in specific direction (Berraies and El Abidine, 2019).
• They are the person which clearly identified the way in which the subordinate
work in order to gain the vision of the company

Research Project Objectives
Research aim
"To identify the influence of leadership on increasing the productivity and performance of
employees within IT sector". A study on Waracle
Research objectives
• To analyse the impact of leadership on boosting the performance and efficiency of employees within
Waracle
• To analyse the leadership challenges faced by Waracle while increasing employee performance and
productivity
• To determine the ways for mitigating leadership issues faced by Waracle while improving performance
and productivity of employees

Research question
• What is the impact of leadership on boosting the performance and
efficiency of employees within Waracle?
• What are the leadership challenges faced by Waracle while increasing
employee performance and productivity?
• What are the ways for mitigating leadership issues faced by Waracle while
improving performance and productivity of employees?

Research Rationale
• The reason behind for the selection of this research topic is to gain the
knowledge that how leaders helps in increasing the performance and
productivity of employees.
• The research helps company to make their employees highly productivity so,
they perform their task in better manner.

Significance of the research
• The following research is important for the company in order to understand the influence of
leadership on the performance and productivity of employees.
• The research is also important determining the challenges that a leader faced while increasing
the productivity and performance of employees so, they perform their task in better manner
(Anning-Dorson, 2021).
• This research is important for the researcher also to develop the several skills which helps in
doing further research in effective manner.

Brief Literature Review
• According to the view of Zhou and Wu (2018), leadership provides positive impacts
on boosting the performance and efficiency of employees in order to perform their job
in effective manner.
• According to the view of Robinson and Ginder (2020), employee performance and
productivity are important for the company in order to achieve their organisational
goals in better manner.
• As per the view of Johnson and Park (2020), mitigating leadership issues are
important for the company in order to improve their employees performance and
productivity so, they perform their task in better manner.

Research methodology
• Research philosophy: Positivism
• Research choice: Quantitative research
choice
• Research strategy: Survey strategy
• Research instrument: Questionnaire
• Sampling: Probability sampling
• Data collection: Primary data and
secondary data collection methods
• Data analysis: Frequency distribution
technique

Potential outcomes
• From the above discussion, it has been analysed that the this research is helpful for the company in order to
gain knowledge regarding better leadership that helps in improving their employees performance and
productivity effectively.
• The research will help company to analyse that challenges that may affects them while improving their
employees performance and productivity.
• This research also describe effective ways that helps in mitigating the leadership challenges that helps
company to improve their employees performance and productivity.

A conceptual map

Gantt Chart

Risk Register
Number Risk Mitigation
1 Cost Questionnaire is used for mitigating the cost
risk in this research.
2 Time Gantt Chart is used by the researcher to
mitigate time risk in this research.
3 Resources The data is collected through secondary
source for mitigating the resource risk in this
research.
4 Safety Maintaining the privacy of the respondents
helps in mitigating the safety risk in this
research.

References
• Anning-Dorson, T., 2021. Organizational culture and leadership as antecedents to organizational
flexibility: implications for SME competitiveness. Journal of Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies.
• Xu, S., Stienmetz, J. and Ashton, M., 2020. How will service robots redefine leadership in hotel
management? A Delphi approach. International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality
Management, 32(6), pp.2217-2237.
• Berraies, S. and El Abidine, S.Z., 2019. Do leadership styles promote ambidextrous innovation? Case of
knowledge-intensive firms. Journal of Knowledge Management