Machiavellianism, Transactional Leadership Style and Bureaucratic Organizational Culture among Government Employees

Abstract

The aim of conducting the present study was to identify the relationship between Machiavellianism, transactional leadership style and bureaucratic organizational culture among government employees of Islamabad and Rawalpindi. The sample comprised of N= 200 and the sample was taken from different ministry organizations of Rawalpindi and Islamabad, thus including (n= 149) male and (n= 51) female employees in the study. The age range of the sample from 22-58 years with a (M = 36.51 & SD=7.94). In order to measureMachiavellianism-IV scale will be used to assess Machiavellianism developed by Christie and Geis(1970),Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ) is the gold standard for assessing transactional leadership styleby Avolio and Bass(1995), and the organizational culture index (OCI) use to measure bureaucratic organizational culture developed by Wallach (1983). The results of the study showed that Machiavellianism has significant positive relationship with transactional leadership style and bureaucratic organizational culture among government employees. The relationship of research variables were also studied with the demographic variables of the government employees. Through independent sample t-test gender differences, job designations analysis revealed that the significant differences on Machiavellianism, transactional leadership style and bureaucratic organizational culture among government employees. Through ANONA analyze the difference on education and monthly income results show that higher the education and monthly income higher will be theMachiavellianism, transactional leadership style and organization were bureaucratic in nature. The findings of this study demonstrate the critical necessity of transactional leadership in the organizations. After analyzing the data, it is recommended that for routine task organization would adopt transactional style of leadership and used when there is complexity in job and interrelated tasks. The limitation and implications of the study were illustrated as well in the study.