An Analysis of Leadership Styles Influencing the Employee Retention in the Organization

Abstract

A leadership style is important to the employee retention because leadership can support the employee within an organization effectively. In addition, it makes the employee have passion to perform their tasks. The study requires data analyses in terms of meta-analysis and synthesis analysis of leadership styles influencing the employee retention. This result will be able to prevent the employee turnover and burnout. Data were collected from the approved international databases, including “Science Direct” during the 2010s – the early 2020s. Keywords finding was one of the most important strategy of this study. The study statement of searching was “leadership styles influencing employee retention”, and then its data were clarified into each group of leadership styles affecting the employee retention. The result indicated that there were the 124 relevant research articles that 13 full research papers classified into 2 qualitative papers and 11 quantitative papers were selected based on the studied criteria.  However, from study, there were 3 leadership styles that influence the employee retention in an organization i.e., relations-oriented leadership, task-oriented leadership, and change-oriented leadership respectively. Nonetheless, the only one task-oriented leadership style was negatively related, the other was positively relevant. On the other hand, the change-oriented leadership can enhance the organization to be sustainably excellent.