RESPONSIBLE LEADERSHIP AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING IN HIGH TECH FIRMS: ASSESSING THE ROLE OF HELPING INITIATIVE AND LEADER’S EMPATHY ON JOB PERFORMANCE

Abstract

The current study is having the capacity to address the major ongoing issues of the IT sector of Pakistan, as the underlying sector is facing issues regarding the job performance of the employees. Responsible leadership is got importance due to its emergence in this sector. In order to check the impact of responsible leadership and knowledge sharing on job performance, this study has also incorporated the moderating factor of leader empathy and mediating role of helping initiatives at the workplace as well. For the completion of the study, a sample of 273 respondents was drawn out of the population in order to generalize the results to the whole population. These respondents were taken out from the IT sector of Pakistan, SPSS and AMOS were used to analyse the data. Through the help of the analysis, the researcher found out that there is no impact of responsible leadership on job performance and no impact has been observed while studying the knowledge sharing and helping initiatives as well. The rest of the study hypothesis are proved significant. This is also having its practical, theoretical, and policy-making contributions. This study is also significant by its nature as it took the leader empathy as a moderator to check the job performance of employees of the high technological sector of Pakistan.