Impact of Leadership Style on Organisational Performance: Case Study of Selected Organisation in Ilorin

Abstract

Organizations in Nigeria are realizing that in order to adequately achieve the aims and objectives of their business in the short and long run and also to achieve given to the effective use of leadership style. The study focused on the impact of leadership style on organizational performance. In the process, it also investigated the leadership style dimensions, leadership qualities, leadership theories and the effect of leadership style on organization. The study was conducted using selected organization in Ilorin, Kwara State. The data collection instrument was questionnaire. Simple random sampling technique was used and analysis was done on 60 employees out of 127 employees in the organization using regression, correlation coefficients, analysis of variance (ANOVA) with the use of SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Science) to test the formulated hypotheses. The study was able to identify that there is a significant effect of leadership style on organizational performance. It is therefore, recommended that managers should adopt the appropriate leadership style that suit the organization at the same time taking into consideration the effective management of employees through leadership qualities in order to increase the level of performance and organization efficiency