American International Journal of Humanities and Social Science (AIJHSS)

There are only a few empirical studies in the literature that had explored implications of caring leadership in commercial organizations. However, these studies by researchers (Greenleaf 1977; Spears 2010) indicated a large potential for better leadership experience and performance of the organization, if caring leadership principles were applied. This paper explored the effect of caring leadership on the performance of commercial organizations within Pakistan. The study surveyed senior managers of these Pakistani commercial organizations and statistically tested relationships between caring leadership and performance of the organization and organizational commitment of employees. The study also tested the effect of organizational commitment of the supervisor on the organizational commitment of employees and also the effect of concern of supervisor for the feelings of employees on the commitment of those employees to the organization. The study used servant leadership instrument developed by Barbuto and Wheeler as a proxy for caring leadership.