African Journal of
Business Management

  • Abbreviation: Afr. J. Bus. Manage.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 1993-8233
  • DOI: 10.5897/AJBM
  • Start Year: 2007
  • Published Articles: 4193

Full Length Research Paper

Impact of Gender Diversity on Spiritual Leadership and Follower’s Need for Spiritual Survival/Well-being

Hina Ali
  • Hina Ali
  • Department of Economic, Govt. Post Graduate College, Multan, Pakistan.
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Muhammad Ishaque Fani
  • Muhammad Ishaque Fani
  • Department of Pakistan Studies, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan.
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Huma Ali
  • Huma Ali
  • COMSATS Institute of information Technology, Lahore, Pakistan.
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Surriya Shahab
  • Surriya Shahab
  • Department of Political Science & International Relations, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan.
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  •  Accepted: 08 October 2013
  •  Published: 21 October 2013

Abstract

Gender diversity in organizations plays a very important role and greatly influences the leaders and followers behavior. The success of the organizations depends very much on its human resource team. The Leaders and followers play major role in any organizations. Due to this reason, the effect of gender related to leadership spirituality and follower’s need for spiritual survival is taking a much attention among the researchers during the twenty-first century. A very few studies have been conducted by the researchers and have made some contributions on this topic in American and European context, but this area has been remained ignored by behavioral scholars in Pakistani context. The objective of this study is to examine the impact of gender on spiritual leader’s behaviors and follower’s need for spiritual survival/well-being. Therefore, this research aims at exploring the effect of gender diversity on leadership spirituality. The implications for practitioners and researchers have been discussed at the end of the study.

Key words: Gender Diversity, Leadership, Spiritual Leadership, Leadership Behavior, Spirituality, Followers’ need for spiritual survival.