Leadership Styles in Public and Private Banks of Rawalpindi and Islamabad

he study was designed to explore the leadership styles used by the managers of public and private sector banks. Two leadership styles, task-oriented and people-oriented were taken into consideration. A sample of 80 middle managers was selected from National Bank of Pakistan and Muslim Commercial Bank. T-P Leadership Questionnaire (Sergiousanni, Metzeus, & Burden, 1969) was used to measure the leadership styles. It is a 5-point scale with 35 items, measuring task-oriented and people-oriented leadership styles. Analysis of the data indicated that the middle managers of National Bank of Pakistan, which is a public sector bank rely more on people-oriented leadership style, whereas the middle managers of Muslim Commercial Bank, which is a private sector bank, use more of task-oriented leadership style for the management of their subordinates.