Impact of Leadership Styles on Organizational Performance

Authors: Ebrahim Hasan Al Khajeh,Lincoln University College, UAE

Introduction
The role of leadership in an organization is crucial in terms of creating a vision, mission, determination and
establishment of objectives along with directing and coordinating the efforts and organizational activities. Most of
the companies do not take account of the leadership style adopted by their managers. The study aims to explore the
relationship between leadership style and organizational performance

Leadership style dimensions have a

Hypothesis
significant impact on the organizational
tested performance.

Quantitative approach is used to determine

Methodology the relationship between dependent
variable organizational performance and
independent variable leadership styles.

Target Audience Method of Survey

Leadership Styles 
20 randomly selected organization Survey with Likert scale
Transformational
Key Findings & Discussions Charismatic Key Findings & Discussions
Transactional The research was consistent with the previous
Styles having Styles having Democratic works, and the findings from the Literature
positive impact negative impact survey:
Autocratic Transformational leadership: this type of
Democratic Transactional leadership tries to develop the employees and
Transformational   Charismatic motivate them to work beyond their self
Autocratic Bureaucratic interests.
Interpretation of impact Charismatic leadership: this type of leadership
creates good followers but does ot develop
Positive Negative employees to replace their leaders in future.
 Induce better High turnover, do Transactional leadership: in this case the leader
performance not lead to provides rewards to the employees as a form of
among the employee motivation.
employees development. Democratic leadership: this style promotes
decentralized decision making.
Autocratic leadership: these are the classic and
bossy leaders who want their subordinates to
Implications of Leadership work like them.
and Change Management
Basis the findings of the study and the Future Scope
methodology employed, it can be clearly
However, the study has been conducted for the
established that different leadership
banking sector and the results might vary slightly
styles tend to impact the performance of
for different organizations. 
the organizations in different manners. It
The other major drawback is that the study
is advisable for organizations to adopt
completely relies on quantitative data ignoring
leadership styles with positive influence
qualitative data, which is very essential as the
and achieve growth. Leadership styles
leadership also has intangible implications of
which empower the employees and
organizations.
involve them in decision making tend to
have better effects and should be
Source: Journal of Human Resources Management Research Vol. 2018 (2018), Article ID 687849, 10 pages, ISSN :
promoted at the workplace. 2166-0018 DOI: 10.5171/2018.687849, Citations: 87, Author: Citations: 702; h-index: 13;i10-index: 16