Leadership Styles and Employee Performance in Selected Sub-Counties, Bushenyi District Uganda

Abstract

The study assessed the effect of leadership styles on local government employee erformance in selected sub-counties in Bushenyi district and was based on four specific objectives: (i) to determine the demographic profile of the respondents in terms f gender, age, marital status, educational level, kind of employment and working experience; (ii) to determine the level of leadership styles, (iii) to determine the level of ocal government employee performance, (iv) to establish whether there is a significant -elationship between leadership styles and local government employee performance in selected sub counties Bushenyi district. It employed a descriptive correlation survey iesign, Used SAQ to collect data from 157 out of 259 employees, using simple random sampling. Data analysis was done using SPSS’s frequencies and percentages; means 3nd PLCC. The findings showed that majority of the respondents were male, and were narried in the age bracket of 20 — 39 years, certificate holders dominated the study, :he youth dominated the category of respondents and experience in the organization ~as between below 3 years. Both the level of leadership styles and employee Derformance was high. PLCC revealed positive and significant relationship between eadership styles and employee performance. The researcher recommended that if local government employee performance is to improve; (a) Leaders should ensure that there s Proper Corporation among all the workers whenever problems arise, (b) the districts should put change agents to minimize social cost of living in the organization, (c) to guarantee employees’ welfare, employee should be given fringe benefits to subsidize income, (d) Sub counties should provide appropriate and suitable work methods and materials to improve workers’ effectively (e) staff should be trained to acquire different skills and knowledge to exhibit high level of creativity in duties. Basing on path goal theory of leadership by Robert House (1971) that guided the study, it was proved that effective leaders influence employee performance by clarifying the path to their followers to attain the goals