Women entrepreneurs Leadership style and its impact on organization

performance with special reference to India

 Ashutosh Singh, Assistant Professor, MIET, Meerut

 Dr. Ajay Singh, Professor, MIET, Meerut

Introduction- From past few decades, there is force of organizational change for growth as a
result of this there is rapid economic and technological change, the invasion of women into
the workforce, the economic shift of investment in market also emphasis on short term
returns also focuses on redesigning organizations. This organizational change includes
mainly organizational restructuring, trust in their leaders, team work, diversity and the origin
of new form of leadership. A leader is one who manage the team effectively for
organizational. As a result of this woman entrepreneurs have to be a good leader.
Purpose – Present study aims to examine the linkage between women entrepreneurs’
leadership styles and organizational performance.
Design/methodology/approach – Dependent and independent factors involve in the present
study. Independent factor is organizational Performance on the other side dependent factor is
women entrepreneurship leadership styles. On the basis of these factors a questionnaire has
been designed. Total 43 women’s has been included in the research who responded. Out of
74 finally 43 women enterprise fill up the questionnaire.
Findings – Findings reveals that there is positive relationship between financial support and
change management but on the other hand there is negative relationship between family
commitment and change management. Lastly culture is also having negative relationship with
change management in Indian prospective.
Research limitations/implications – Questionnaires has been distributed to women
entrepreneurs of Delhi and Pune. To assess the exact impact of women entrepreneurship
styles on organizational performance, other areas of India should also be taken in to
consideration. Present study is focuses on leadership roles of women entrepreneurs and their
impact on organizational performance. In future other factor should also consider in the study
Practical implications – The result shows that visionary and charismatic leadership is having
significant relationship with organizational performance while on the other hand
transformational leadership is having no significant relationship with organizational
performance.
Originality/value –First time this research is used to examine the linkage between women
entrepreneurs’ leadership styles and organizational performance.
Keywords- organizational change, woman entrepreneurs, leadership styles, organizational
performance, transformational leadership, visionary leadership and charismatic leadership
Paper type Research paper