The main purpose of this study is to explore how organizational culture affects the Agile Attitude in banking sector as well as to explore how leaders ensure the effectiveness of Agile Attitude. Hence, the study investigates the social construction of the informants’ experiences through a social psychology lens. To explore real-life experiences, the bank employees were interviewed based on a one-on-one semi-structured interview. There was lack of past research discussing the Agile Attitude in the banking sector thus the proposed research adopts a qualitative exploratory research methodology which is suitable to be used to explore informant experience of Agile Attitude through their feelings, thoughts and behaviour which helped in understanding better about Agile practices in banking sectors. The interview results were transcribed and analyzed using thematic analysis. An inductive content analysis used to organize the qualitative data through open coding, creating categories for abstraction. NVIVO will be used to analyze and organize text collected during the interview. There are two theories - Organizational Culture Theory (Schein, 2010) and Transactional vs. Transformational Leadership Theory (Bass & Avolio, 1987) will be used as guidelines to observe the research studies and conclude the studies by developing the theories.
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