Does Leadership Style Influences the Performance of Employees in an Academic Institution? - An Assessment

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  • Dr. R. Dayanandan  Professor, Hawassa University, Awasa, Ethiopia

Keywords:

Leadership Style, Employee Performance, Academic Institution

Abstract

The increasingly competitive global situation has pushed organizations to exploit their available resources and leadership is key for good performance since it coordinates both utilization of human efforts and other resources. This paper aimed at assessing the effect to fleadership styles on employees’ performance at Hawassa University. Descriptive research design was adopted and data were collected from 216 respondents to address the objectives. Descriptive and in ferential statistics such as Pearson’s correlation and regression analysis werecarried out to assess both relationships and effects. The results indicate that among the five types of leadership styles, the mean value indicates that most of the leaders followed Transactional leadership style (3.40) followed by Transformational leadership style (3.35). The overall performance of the subordinate employees is poor since mean value of majority of the variables is below 3. The transformational leadership, transactional leadership and democratic leadership were found to play a positive effect, whereas, laissez-faire and autocratic leadership have play a negative effect on employee performance. Itis recommended that transformational, transactional and democratic leadership styles arethe most effective leadership styles to be followed to enhance the performance of employees in an academic institution.

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2020-10-18

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Dr. R. Dayanandan "Does Leadership Style Influences the Performance of Employees in an Academic Institution? - An Assessment " International Journal of Scientific Research in Science, Engineering and Technology (IJSRSET), Print ISSN : 2395-1990, Online ISSN : 2394-4099, Volume 5, Issue 11, pp.80-99, October-2020.