Effect of Leadership Styles on Employee’s Performance

Effect of Leadership Styles on Employee’s Performance

ABSTRACT

The effect of leadership styles on employee’s performance has become a common topic. The objective of the study is to evaluate the effect of leadership styles on employee performance in Federal Inland Revenue Service Abuja. The population of the study is 322. The sample size is 178 using the Taro Yamani formula. The study used a survey research method to share questionnaire to gather primary data from the sample. The data analysis was carried out with the help of statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) software. The results revealed that there is a significant effect of transactional leadership style and transformational leadership style in the performance of employee. whereas it found that there is no significant effect of coercive leadership style in employee performance. The study recommends that organizational leaders or supervisors should use more of transactional and transformational leadership style, but not coercive leadership style to ensure that organizational goals are met.

Keywords: Leadership Styles, Employee Performance, Transactional Leadership Style, Transformational Leadership Style, Coercive Leadership Style.

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