Procrastination Patterns of Transactional and Transformational Leaders

In this modern era creation of surplus or maximization of profits has emerged as a prime focus of organizational performance. In recent past decades procrastination and leadership style had been studied as an influencing factor in relation to performance. Enormous studied were conducting on leadership styles and procrastination with behavioural variables but no study established directly relationship of procrastination with leadership styles. The present study was an attempt to fill this gap and an effort to study relationship between procrastination and Leadership styles. The data was collected from 15 Textile Factories which were selected conveniently from five district of Punjab. The number of respondents was 100 managers. Simple random (probability) sampling technique was conducted to collect the responses. The demographic information was also gathered from the respondents. Two questionnaires Pure Procrastination Scale (Steel, 2010) and Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ) Leaders Rater Form short (Bass & Avolio, 2004) were used at five point Likert scale. The reliability of questionnaires was also tested by Cronabach's alpha which was moderate. Descriptive Statistics was performed. Correlation and Regression were used to test the hypothesis. There was positive and highly significant relationship was found between procrastination and transformational leadership style. Regression analysis was showing that transformational leadership had significant relationship and impact on the procrastination. Limitations of study, implication and scope of research in future were also discussed in the study.