Leadership styles and employee job performance in Serere District Local government, Uganda
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2019-10
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Kampala International University, College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Abstract
This research study was conducted on leadership styles and employee job performance in Serere
District Local Government located in Eastern region of Uganda in Teso-sub region. Fhe key
leadership styles studied include; transactional, autocratic, Transformational leadership and
laissez faire leadership styles. The purpose of the study was to establish the relationship between
leadership styles and employee job performance. The key objective was to find out the prevailing
leadership style in Serere District Local Government. The research study used qualitative,
descriptive, co relational and cross sectional research design. The study used a simple random
sampling strategy in which a sample size of 181 was selected from the population of 330
comprising of 15 women organizations, 20 youth organizations, 15 opinion leaders and 280
leaders at Serere District Local Government. The significance of the study was to help local
governments identify leadership styles associated with jot effectiveness; findings would also be
used by other researchers as reference. Meanwhile, the central government would use findings
for policy review. A multi factor questionnaire by Bass Avolio (1995) was used to derive a self~
administered questionnaire for data collection. The study revealed that the most dominant
leadership style was transformational leadership, followed by transactional, laissez faire while
autocratic was the least executed. The study further established a significant strong positive
relationship between transformational leadership style and employee job perfo rmance while
other leadership styles exhibited some degree of influence on employee job performance. In
conclusion. I propose that leaders should use transformational leadership and should execute less
of laissez faire and autocratic styles of leadership. I recommend that government authorities set
up training programs to enhance better leadership styles, leaders should always clarify
expectations to employees prior start of work, there is also need for policy review by central
Government and leaders ought to lead by example, leaders should treat subordinates with respect
and confidentiality. Future research should focus on: attitude of employees towards a job and
employee performance. generally. it should focus on other factors that impact on employee job
performance other than styles of leadership.
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A research report submitted to the Department Of Political and Administrative Studies in partial fulfillment for the Award of the Degree of Bachelors of Public Administration of Kampala International University
Keywords
Leadership styles, Employee job performance, Serere District