Leadership Styles and Its Impact on Organizational Performance
CHAPTER ONE
PURPOSE OF STUDY
This study is aimed at determining the leadership styles and its impact on organizational performance.
- To analyse how leadership styles adopted by particular organization impacts on organization effectiveness.
- To identify from the selected parastatal (Organisation) in Akwa Ibom State, if ineffectiveness was based on their leadership styles.
- To verify how the level of education affects leadership style in organization.
- To identify the problem emitting from the various leadership styles and make recommendations for their solutions.
CHAPTER TWO
LITERATURE REVIEW
INTRODUCTION
Many scholars are of the opinion that leadership is concerned with the act of influencing individuals as well as group or organizational activities towards achievement of organizational objectives or goals. Building on this definition, leadership is something more than power or authority.
This implies some degree of voluntary compliance by followers. From a managerial perspective, leadership represents the ability to influence subordinates to willingly perform specify tasks associated with goals accomplishment.
For the purpose of this theoretical framework. It will be necessary to draw a useful distinction between the idea of leadership as organizational functions. The former refers to the distribution throughout an organization of decision making power. The first lead us to look at the qualities and abilities of individual in the organisation, while the other leads us to the pattern of power and authority in the organization.
Alex Bevelas (1960) stated that leadership should not be seen as personal qualities but as an organizational function, he asked, ‘what are the leadership function? Many of the proposed responses are centred on planning, giving information evaluation, arbitrating, controlling, rewarding, punishing, underlying idea that leadership acts are those which help the organization achieve its goals. Everywhere these is need for the exercise of leadership. In communities, political affairs, union and business organization.
Yulu Brue and Shihoff Dan (1975) states that leadership has something to do with the people. They argued that unless a manager or supervisor shows initiate in dealing with people he or she cannot be classified as a leader.
This implies that a leader cannot depend solely on the enforcement of rules, he has to handle personal relationship with his group of followers.
Psychologists have attempted to find solution to why some individuals in an organization are capable of leading while others seem destined only to follow.
They have examined traits of individuals, no particular traits has been found to distinguish and render from his followers. A leader should excel in some capability that required in a pertain law situation he and his followers willingly obey him.
Tuille Blue et al (1975) state that it is not the capabilities of individual will be leaders but also conditions of the situation.
CHAPTER THREE
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY INTRODUCTION
The purpose of this chapter is to explain the steps and procedures adopted in carrying out this study which includes research design, sources and method of data collection, population study, sample and sampling procedure, method of data analysis.
RESEARCH DESIGN
The research design used in this research work is the survey and descriptive research designs. The designs was desirable since the study was non experimental and needed a large sample size with coverage of population of subjects. These designs made it possible for generalization to be effected across parent population with some sense of guaranteed high degree of precision. Many authors have commended this design for what it stands for, effective generalization (Denga and Ali, 1987).
CHAPTER FOUR
DATA PRESENTATION / ANALYSIS INTRODUCTION
This chapter is concerned with the presentation analysis and interpretation of data collected. In testing the hypothesis, a total number of hundred (100) questionnaire were sent out to both directors, and rank and file in Akwa Ibom State Water Company Limited, Uyo. Ninety (90) representing 90% were duly returned to the researcher, the work of this chapter was done based on the information give on the questionnaire.
CHAPTER FIVE
SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION
INTRODUCTION
This chapter presents the summary of the research study besides, the conclusions arising there are presented and conclusions of the study.
SUMMARY
The study is aimed at investigating the leadership styles and effect inn organizational performance. The study population was Akwa Ibom State civil servants. However, the study centered around the sample population which comprised of civil servant of the Akwa Ibom State Water Company Limited, Uyo. The research design was the survey descriptive and simple percentage was the statistics used in testing the only hypothesis of the study.
The finding revealed a positive and significant relationship between the level of education and leadership styles in organizational effectiveness. The leadership styles adopted by a company and achievement of organizational objectives, and effectiveness and performance of organisation and leadership styles.
CONCLUSION
Having studied the rule of effective leadership styles in organsiational performance. The study revealed that the staff performance in any organisation be it informal or formal depends largely on how effective a leader is, and the leadership can be thoroughly felt when there is favourable situation for the leader.
Any director, permanent secretary, manager who adopt a problem solving, democratic leadership style get the best from the employees.
No single leadership style is suitable at all situations. The manager should be situational, idiographic and nomothetic oriented in his style of leadership.
RECOMMENDATION
Based on the finding and the conclusions drawn, the following recommendations are made.
- Managers should carry along every employee in their organisation by involving them in both the decision and implementation processes of the system.
- In view of the postulates of the contingency theory of leadership, the best way to enhance leadership effectiveness in an organisation is the modified favourableness of specific situation which is conducive to effective organizational performance.
- The Managing Director of Akwa Ibom State Water Company Limited should be of tasks to subordinates without bias.
- Staff transfers as an instrument of productivity should be intelligently and fairly arrived out from time to time. This will always inject fresh blood into the system.
- While selecting managers, the government should take into consideration both the seniority (merit) and professional training of the individual.
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