The impact of leadership on employee performance : case study: Mpanga tea factory Kabarole district
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2010-06
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Kampala International University.College of Economics and Management
Abstract
The puqiose of the study was to establish the relationship between leadership and
employee performance at Mpanga Tea Factory. Leadership is the fundamental oxygen for
any of any striving organization for survival, however, Mpanga Tea Factory are lacking
such ingredients in its daily operation. This was according to the information revealed in
years back. According to the revealed by the company annual magazine,
mismanagement, autocratic leadership and arbitrary ter111ination of employees were the
order of the day. Under this research topic various objectives were developed to aid the
researcher in the study and this included; to find the leadership styles being used at
Mpanga Tea Factory, to establish whether leadership affects employee at Mpanga Tea
Factory, to establish the barriers of leadership at Mpanga Tea Factory and lastly to
establish the 111easures to effective leadership at Mpanga Tea Factory.
The literature of this study were both from secondary and primary sources. Secondary
sources of literature were to find out the views of other scholars in relation to the topic
under study. For instance according to Robins(2000), various leadership styles such as
democratic leadership, autocratic, liases fair and hands on leadership styles were
identified. Secondary sources of data also revealed that leadership has a direct positive
and negative effect on employees' perfor111ance. Further111ore, Davis (2003) identified
dishonesty and lack of integrity, poor communication skills, and untrustworthiness as the
major barrier of leadership.
Qualitative and quantitative methods of data collection were used during the research.
Under the qualitative method, descriptio11s were used to analyze the research finding
where as quantitative method involved the use of numerical figures to describe the
research findings. The research chose Mpanga Tea Factory as the case study where the
research was carried out. The population under study was 331 employees of which 200
were chosen as the sample size. In addition to that, questionnaires, interviews,
observation were also used to collect data.
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Research proposal submitted to faculty of business and management in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award bachelors degree of human of resource management of Kampala International University
Keywords
Leadership, Employee, Performance