Dr Nauman Mushtaq, Ph.D. (Management Science), NGC Ministry of Energy/DPU/IMS/USA/UMT/PU/NCBA&E LCU/LCC/HPE Gauff-Bauer
According to grounded social exchange theory, this study examines ethical leadership's direct and indirect impact on worker’s creative performance. More specifically, this study will also investigate the intervening mediate roles of work engagement and employee’s attitudes towards performing well between Ethical leadership and Creative work performance. The study data was obtained through self-reporting survey questionnaires distributed to employees of construction organizations in Lahore, Pakistan. The findings supported that Ethical leadership directly relates to creative work performance. Furthermore, work engagement and attitude toward performing well positively relate to ethical leadership and creative work performance. The findings broaden our understanding of how factors such as a positive attitude, psychological states, and engagement at work may produce the worker’s performance and increase their potential for creative intellectual in implementing novel ideas at the workplace.
Power generation has a central role in the economic growth of every country specifically, in developing countries like Pakistan where, there is scarcity of electricity. Efficient and cheap generation of electricity can assure continuous countrys economic growth and development. Therefore, the objective of current study is to investigate the efficiency of Power Generation (PGs) firms in Pakistan for the tenure of 2014 to 2018. These PG firms are also known as Independent Power Producers (IPPs) in the country. This study has applied Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and the value added approach is followed over the study for selection of the input and output variables. Sales and power generation is selected as output variables while the selected input variables are gross capacity, fuel cost and labor. The findings of study states on average level the Technical Efficiency (TE) of these PG firm is founded at the level of 72% while Pure Technical Efficiency (PTE) is 86% and Scale Efficiency (SE) is 85%, respectively. Moreover, it was also found that there is an increasing trend in the efficiency of these PGs firms for the tenure of five years. Furthermore, the Tobit regression results suggest as that age is negatively pertained with efficiency whereas, liquidity is found as positively pertained with the efficiency of PGs. Size is found as positively pertained with TE and SE whereas, negatively pertained with PTE in contrast, debt is found positively pertained with PTE and negatively pertained with SE.
The purpose of this study is to investigate how visionary leadership impacts employees' work innovation performance among university teachers in Lahore, Pakistan, in support of the social cognitive theory. In addition, it will examine whether psychological empowerment serves as a mediator of the relationship between visionary leadership and employees' innovative work performance. Furthermore, creative self-efficacy serves as a moderator between psychological empowerment and innovative work performance. The methodology adopted for this research was a quantitative, cross-sectional survey design, using standardized, closed-ended questionnaires administered to university teaching staff in Pakistan. The study used SPSS Software for analysis, and responses from 372 participants were included in the final analysis. The results show that visionary leadership has a direct and positive relationship with innovative work performance. However, the results suggest that psychological empowerment partially mediates the relationship between visionary leadership and innovative work performance. Furthermore, creative self-efficacy positively moderates psychological empowerment and innovative work performance. In addition, this research is helpful to policymakers, owners, managers, and the education sector.
