The Impact of Misleadership on Poor Performance: A Study of Financial Institutions in Pakistan

Abstract

The main purpose of this research is to investigate the impact of misleadership on poor performance in the Pakistan financial institutions. This research is carried on the strategic and managerial employees of the one (1) private and one (1) foreign bank operated in Pakistan with an engagement of 200 employees as the sample respondents. The findings of the study indicates that missing, misguided and Machiavellian leadership has no significant impact of the poor performance in the studied context while only misinformed leadership in the cluster of the independent variables shows a significant positive impact on the poor performance in the financial institutions of Pakistan.  However, it is concluded that the proposed dimensions of Rayment & Smith (2010) misleadership framework does not significantly impact the poor performance in the financial institutions of Pakistan except the dimension of misinformed leadership. Further, it is recommended to examine new contexts with the engagement of a wider sample to find more accurate and generalize results for the investigated topic. Hence, this research will benefit the corporate managers and the research community with the new practicing dynamics of misleadership in today’s global corporate world.