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The rapid changing environment and constant flow of employees, as well as the practice of hiring time limited employees is not something new to the contemporary business world. There are several reasons why many people choose to work for a specific period of time for a company and then if they like the workplace they choose to stay longer or start to look for other opportunities. As mentioned earlier, there are employees who started in a time limited position but later were appointed in a permanent position. What sparked our curiosity is what makes these temporary employees stay in the company for a longer period of time.To find the answers to our curiosity, we tried to look into the workplace environment of the chosen company and the type of leadership style that exists in the company. Through this research paper we propose ourselves to get valuable insights into how organizations manage to create an environment where their temporary employees would choose to stay without any financial reward (for motivational purpose) by taking a look at a real-life scenario. For our paper we chose to use GLS, a postal service which perfectly illustrates this situation as they hire employees for a temporary timeline. We want to see how this company manages to retain these temporary employees for a longer period of time..In order to answer our curiosity, we interviewed some of the representatives who currently work in GLS. The results were analyzed and compared in order to come up with a compelling conclusion.We found out that GLS managed to retain their employees by connecting the personal and organizational purpose across the company and enabling an effective leadership style which was a result of employees claiming/granting leadership among themselves.While our findings were conclusive, they represent only one dimension of the situation and further research is encouraged both to complement our findings and using them for a more in-depth or significant research regarding the subject Key Terms: Co-construction, Leadership process, Followership, Purpose driven Leadership |
