Impact of Leadership style on Employee performance

(Anon., 2016)

A leader is essential for every company to achieve predetermined objectives. this may include achieving goals includes profit margin, customer satisfaction and economic need. As stated by Kenneth and Heresy “An effective leader must be a good diagnostician and must adopt style the demands of the situation in which they operate.” (AMUSSAH, 2020)

According to Yukl (2006), they see leadership as a process of influencing their followers to understand and agree upon what is needed to be done and how it should be achieved, and the process of facilitating collective and individual efforts to realize a common objective or goal.

Leadership is the function of leading a team or organization or the ability to do this. Such as,

1.    A clear vision of the organization must be established

2.    Vision must be shared among team members to achieve the goal

3.    The team should be clearly informed the information to realize the vision of the organization

4.    Coordinating and balancing the conflicting interests of all members and stakeholders.

A leader is a person who must act in a crisis situation or at a time of quick decision making. Leadership cannot be taught, but leadership skills can be improved by gaining training, mentoring and experience in such leadership. (SDSU extention, 2021)

 

What is employee performance

Employee performance is the ability to perform employee tasks in the workplace in a timely and effective way. Performance is measured by the quality, quantity, and the efficiency of work in the workplace.

Focusing on employee performance does not only benefit the business. It helps to achieve the full potential of the staff, while at the same time improving the overall performance - this will have a positive effect on the morale and quality of the work produced. (Anon., 2022)

 

Impact of Leadership style on Employee performance

A leadership style refers to the characteristic behaviors of a leader when leading, promoting, guiding and managing groups of people. These are some difference types of styles.

 

Autocratic or Authoritarian leadership:

Autocratic leadership, also known as dictatorial leadership, is a leadership style characterized by personal control over all decisions and the small input of team members. Authoritarian leaders generally make choices based on their opinions and judgments and rarely accept advice from their followers.

This form of leadership does not allow for suggestions from employees, and they need to follow orders without any explanation as to why the task should be completed.

Researchers have also found that authoritarian leadership often lacks creative solutions to problems, which can ultimately affect the functioning of the team. (Cherry, 2020)

 

Democratic or Participative leadership:

Participatory or democratic leaders devolve power. It is characterized by consultation with sub-executives and their participation in formulating plans and policies. He encourages participation in decision making.

Democratic leadership style results in increased productivity of employees, reduces the need for control and systematic rules and procedures, creates competent individuals who are willing to do what they can and tend to create sub-executives who think for themselves and seek responsibility. (Nonyelum et. al., 2018)

 

The Laissez-faire or Free-rein leadership:

Independent leaders avoid power and responsibility. The Laissez-faire, or non-interfering type of leader, delegates decision-making responsibility to his subordinates and takes minimal initiative in management. He gives no direction and allows the team to establish its own goals and create its own problems.

Leaders who follow the Laissez-faire leadership style do not give feedback to their followers. They do not use rewards or other tools to meet the needs of their followers. As a result, employees are dissatisfied, ineffective and inefficient in their work. (asrar-ul-haq, 2016)

 

Paternalistic leadership:

Paternal leadership is the administrative style of a father, where organizational authority is used to control and protect subordinate employees who are expected to be loyal and [unconditionally] obedient.

This type of leadership style can have a positive impact on the performance of employees because the employee will always be rewarded for good behavior and hard work. absenteeism and dissociation were reduced, and decisions are made based on the interests of the employees. (Harappa learning pvt ltd, 2021)

Conclusion

The results show that leadership has a positive impact on the quality of performance and in turn has a positive effect on job satisfaction. Leadership has an impact on job satisfaction, and it motivates an employee.

 

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