Research Proposal
Student Name: Misha Chaudry
Student ID: 21919958
Working Title For The Proposal
How can administrative leadership affect the employee morale through
leadership styles adopted?
Practical Context And Rationale for
The Proposal
RESEARCH PROBLEM:
Considering in todays era, the education systems play a huge role worldwide. To have
extraordinary education systems, requires exceptional educational staff. There are several
reasons to why an educator would leave a specific organisation. As far as personal reasons
and retirement factors could be an excuse, one of the main reasons according to (Powell
2016) are unproductive school administrations. Many schools bare the loss of highly
professional educators by failing to provide administrative support (Deruy 2016).
Such highly educated and well experienced educators when exit an organisation not only
the particular organisation bares a loss of human asset but this in return also affects ad limits
the students academic skills.
Practical Context And Rationale for
The Proposal
The organisation I am going to choose is Beaconhouse, which is a well reputed
school in Pakistan. The purpose of my study is to analyse and evaluate what traits
have been identified by the leaders and its impact on the educators.
The problem that I’m willing to investigate is to how can Beaconhouse eradicate or
lower the educator turn over rate in their organisation with context to the
leadership styles adopted.
Research Questions Aims and
Objectives
QUESTIONS:
 Critically discuss how different leadership styles can b reframed by Beaconhouse
administrators which will influence the educators job performance and employee
satisfaction as well as loyalty?
 Does Beaconhouse in order to overcome the issue discussed need a leader or a
manager in terms of organisational growth. If yes, what are the reasons?
 Any additional factors identified by the educators that affect morale?
AIM:
 To critically examine to what extent is Beaconhouse capable in bringing out the
required change in its education centres?
Research Questions Aims and
Objectives
Objectives:
 To examine the traits of different leaders that contribute to high employee
morale.
 To recognise the efforts and contributions of Beaconhouse’s administrative
department in order to retain and attract best educators through employee
satisfaction.
 To acquire educator recommendation in order to overcome the problem.
Academic Context
Taking into account our topic and purpose of research, following theoretical ideas will aid
in giving us an insight of the problem and its solution:
The one most suitable could be McGregor’s theory. He tells us that there are 2 kinds of
employees, he further classified them into Theory-X and Theory-Y. Theory-X consisting of
employees who are only induvial achievement oriented, are lazy, run away from
responsibilities, have no ambitions and work for sustainable income. Whereas Theory-Y
consists of the total opposite employees: very responsible, love to work and are selfmotivated and look forward to challenges.
These classifications of employees should be understood, led and challenged according to
their traits in order to keep them motivated.
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Now, as mentioned earlier the traits or nature of employees, there are certain leadership traits
and styles as well for example autocratic, democratic, laissez faire, etc. In order to support our
research proposal, I would like to mention what leadership models need to be taken in
account:
 Value Based Leadership Model: Richard Barret defines: leading the employees through
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genuine decision making which will in return strengthen the leader’s relation with his
employees and stakeholders. This model consists of 7 levels of leadership consciousness.
Crisis Manager
Relationship Manager
Manager/Organiser
Facilitator/Influencer
Integrator/Inspirer
Mentor/Partner
Wisdom/Visionary
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Value based leadership as explained, could be very beneficial in carrying out this research.
The relationship between an employee and the leader plays a huge role in the job
performance and morale of the educators. Recognising and studying the educators ability
and traits, a leader can easily guide and motivate them.
Reason of choosing the value based leadership model is that it will aid in critically examining
identifying the nature and working habits which in return will guide that under what level
does Beaconhouse’s leaders fall, what are the positive and negative impacts of that level,
what possible changes are needed to be made and how can these leaders improvise their
styles according to the situation in the end to achieve the main purpose of this research
which is, how effective leadership style will result in highly motivated and satisfied educators.
Proposals For Primary Research
Method
The primary research methods I would like to use are:
 Send questionnaires to Beaconhouse administrators and educators (Easy and quick)
 Conduct interviews of the educators (For extensive research)
 Personal observations (In order to prepare and conduct better interviews and
questionnaires)
The research methods can be carried out with ease I believe, as some relatives have been
employed in the chosen school, which will allow me easy access to the staff.
Proposals For Primary Research
Method
My research work is do-able as I mentioned I have access to the organisations staff, apart
from that this research work will benefit Beaconhouse in terms of retaining their most
valuable educators through delivering explicit leadership by finding out gaps with the help
of this research, as well as building an image of being an organisation that prioritises
employee welfare, this can in return enable Beaconhouse to have an competitive edge
and grow in Pakistan's education sector.