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Leadership Styles of Managers in Private Insurance Companies in Myanmar (Ma Htwe Ei Thaw Lwin, 2018) Htwe Ei Thaw Lwin The purposes of this study were to explore the leadership styles of managers in Insurance Companies in Myanmar, to explore the outcomes of leadership styles of managers. Leadership styles included transformational leadership, transactional leadership and laissez-faire leadership. The outcomes consisted of extra effort, effectiveness, and organizational commitment. The data was collected from three private insurance companies that engaged in coinsurance agreement with the sample size of 50 managers and 125 subordinates. The managers responded about selfperceived leadership styles. The subordinates responded about their perception of managers' leadership styles and its effect on performance outcomes. The result showed that the insurance sector is a female dominant sector, echoed with the young and well-educated workforce. The results clearly found that managers are more inclined to transformational leadership style rather than transactional leadership style. Managers do active management-by-exception more than other transactional leadership characteristics. There exists such leadership outcomes as extra effort, effectiveness, satisfaction, affective commitment and normative cornmitment, however, continuance commitment is weak. In addition, it found that the more managers practice transformational leadership skills, the more employees' outcomes can be expected whereas transactional and laissez-faire styles could not help employees commit to their organization. If leaders remain unable to develop transformational leadership skills.through experience, they can exhibit these skills through trainings. 2018-06-01 https://meral.edu.mm/records/8891