Understanding the Relationship between Organizational Politics and Leadership Styles

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to understand the relationship between perceived organizational politics and its relationship with leadership styles (Transformational& Transactional) in public sector organizations.The most effective leadership Questionnaire (MLQ) was used for the purpose of data collection. The questions were about superior's styles of leadership and five point item scale was used to measure organizational politics. The permission was taken and the data was collected with high discretion. The sampling technique used was "Convenient Sampling" in two local government public Universities. The data was analyzed in SPSS v 20, and mean, correlation and standard deviation tests were applied.The research gave the two types of finding, one with transformational leadership style and the other with transactional leadership style. The results showed the positive relation of organizational politics with transactional leadership and negative relation with transformational leadership. Other techniques can also be used like interviews and observational methods but they are time consuming. We can also increase the sample size and add the variable of Performance. It would be helpful for manager to understand that which leadership style supports more the different political situations.The results are specifically based on public sector universities which give the clear result of relationship between perceived organizational politics and leadership styles.