Relationship of path-goal leadership styles and job security of the property consultants of real estate company X

Abstract

In today's more complex and challenging corporate arena, organizations need to maximize their leaders in order to ensure that the company is able to fulfill its organizational goals. The leaders in the organizations are also tasked to make sure that the employees remain secured with their jobs because the lack of job security can pose a number of negative effects to the employee's performance that can eventually lead to a decreased performance of the company. Though there is a significant need to study leaders and job security of the subordinates, there has been a dearth of studies focusing on the two variables. This study is focused on determining the relationship between Path-Goal leadership styles of the managers of a real estate company and the job security of the subordinates. Two survey questionnaires are utilized for this study: one of which is directed towards knowing the Path-Goal leadership style of the manager while the other is to determine the level of job security of the subordinates across the four teams used as respondents. The respondents of the study are sales agents in a real estate company who have had at least 6 months of work experience in the job. They were purposively selected and the results primarily show that there is a significant high correlation between leadership styles and job security of the sales agents in Company X. Other findings include that there is no correlation between job security and employment position as well as job security and length of service. Respondents also show that they experience high level of job security within the organization. The most frequently adopted leadership styles in the company are achievement oriented and participative style. The results of the study may present contradicting findings to those of the previous studies. Factors such as nature of the organization and sample size are some of the proposed elements that have contributed to the disparity in the findings.