Effects of Leadership Styles on Employees’ Motivation: A Literary Debate

Leadership styles are different modes of behavior exhibited by administrators,managers or leaders, significantly influencing the motivation level of theiremployees within an organization. These styles include Transactional,Transformational, Autocratic, Democratic, Servant, and Laissez-faire leadership.Each style has unique characteristics, and its effectiveness depends largely on thesituational context. While some organizations inherently lean towards a particularleadership style, other may rarely practice certain styles. For instance, militaryorganizations typically favor transactional leadership, whereas educationalinstitutions often adopt a transformational approach. A theoretical model wasdeveloped from the literature to understand the effects of these different leadershipstyles on employees’ motivation. This model will be tested and verified later byusing primary data to be collected from university teachers in Dera Ismail Khan,Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.