Creativity at the workplace is a key factor that enables organizational growth and development, there better leadership skill is crucial for creating an environment for raising a creative workplace. This study empirically analyzes the leadership styles adopted in the Higher Education Sector of Pakistan and their impact on the retention of employees, incorporating transactional leadership, transformational leadership, and innovative environment as independent variables, and employee retention as the dependent variables. Further, this study assimilated the role of diversity on employee retention as moderators considering it elements. From the diversity context, this study mainly relies on demographic information only and discusses the moderating impact of gender of respondent, gender of supervisor, education level, and employment status as a model to interpret the impact. For the empirical analysis of the study the digital questionnaire has been distributed and received 411 respondents from the Higher Education Sector. SPSS has been used for the analysis. The studies concluded that transformational leadership is significant in the Higher Education Sector of Pakistan and all the four factors of diversity are not moderating in this set of data. Keywords: Leadership, Transactional Leadership, Transformational Leadership, Innovative environment, Diversity. Gel Classifications: M14, L14, I23

Purpose: The study aims to identify the risk factors that are associated with the housing projects in Pakistan based on their relative importance. Moreover, this study intends to highlight the extreme, high and low risks that are involved in housing projects. Design/Methodology/Approach: The study adopts the quantitative research method and conducted a survey through a five-point Likert scale questionnaire. The study has collected 168 responses from the project managers, contractors, designers and consultants of housing projects in Pakistan. In order to examine the relative importance of the risk, the study has applied the Relative Importance Index (RII) method to analyse the risks. Findings: The results of the study depict that there are five extreme risks, ten high risks and 13 low risks which may contribute harm the sustainability of the housing projects. Moreover, all the critical risk factors have high probability of occurrence and extreme impact on the sustainability of the housing projects in Pakistan. Implications/Originality/Value: The practitioners are recommended to develop such projects that should not damage the ecology of the region in which they are located. Also the land should be determined on the basis of sociological and environmental consideration and not on land value alone.

The moderation effect of organizational culture has also been examined. The quantitative approach has been used in data collection, and 182 sample responses have been gathered from the banking industry employees of Pakistan. The data has been analyzed by employing PLS-SEM. The results have shown that transformational and transactional leadership positively and insignificant affect workplace diversity. However, emotional intelligence has a positive and significant effect on workplace diversity. Besides, organizational culture has a positive and significant moderation effect between transactional leadership and workplace diversity. The organizational culture has a negative but insignificant moderation effect between transformational leadership and workplace diversity. The organizational culture has a negative but insignificant moderation effect between emotional intelligence and diversity. Managers are recommended to ensure transparency when identifying roles and expectations of the task amongst employees. Secondly, establish reward systems upon effective outcomes. Thirdly, state the punishments with utmost clarity.