Transactional Leadership Style and Employees' Turnover Intention in Information Technology Organizations

Employees’ turnover intention is one of the key concerns faced by organizations in today’s world. The organizations are striving hard to overcome this problem through different strategies. Leadership style plays a vital role in retaining the relationship between the employee and the organization. This study aims to understand the relation between the transactional leadership style and employee turnover intentions. The factors considered by employees as reasons for turnover intentions were also to be determined. From the population of software engineers working in Information Technology organizations, a sample of 180 software engineers was taken for the study. A well structured questionnaire was distributed and the responses were recorded. Statistical procedures were followed to analyze the data. Results reveal that there is a positive relation between the transactional leadership style and employee turnover intentions.