Introduction of The Impact of Leadership Style on Employees Performance

            Leadership is the process or way through which a person directly and guide his subordinates and followers. There are many ways and styles through which a leader can deal with his subordinates and followers that varies from situation to situation and from the field to field. In the importance of leadership styles, this research stud has the main objective is to study the impact of different leadership styles on the overall performance of employees to get the idea about the most effective leadership style for current leaders.   

1.      Problem Statement of The Impact of Leadership Style on Employees Performance

           Employee’s performance is basically the efficiency or effectiveness of a worker in completing assigned tasks. How a worker completes his job responsibilities, his competency and individual ability to meet deadlines indicate his performance outcomes. Currently, organizations are facing tough competition in the market. Therefore, organizations always seek to enhance employee's performance at maximum to bring efficiency in their human resources utilization. Of course, efficiency in employee's performance can enhance productivity that is directly linked with an increase in overall profitability. While opposition to this decrease in employee's performance can cause to increase cost and reduce profitability. 

           Considering this importance of employee’s performance, it is necessary for leaders and managers to take initiatives and adopt styles that enhance the employee’s performance outcomes. Thus, we can say that organizations need effective leaders to enhance employee’s productivity and performance. But what strategies and styles a leader should adopt to enhance employees performance is a question. In this research study commonly adapted leadership styles will be discussed and analyzed to reach the best one.       

2.      Objectives of The Impact of Leadership Style on Employees Performance

The main objective of this research study is to

·         To provide a comprehensive review of leadership styles

·         To identify the role of leadership style on employees performance

·         To demonstrate the impact of effective leadership styles on employee's satisfaction

·         To explain the effect of transactional leadership style on performance outcomes of employees

·         To identify the best leadership style to enhance employees performance.

3.      Preliminary Literature Review of The Impact of Leadership Style on Employees Performance

           Literature review section will provide information about the previous research finding on this topic or similar research topics. Literature review information is extracted from primary and secondary research data resources including books, journal articles, and websites.

            A research study conducted by Asrar-ul-Haq and Kuchinke in 2016, explain that laissez-faire leadership has negative relations associated with the overall performance outcome of the employees, therefore, leaders adopt laissez-faire leadership style at workplace workers show poor performance (Asrar-ul-Haq and Kuchinke). While empirical research study concludes that transformational leadership style not only causes to enhance employee's satisfaction but also results in an increase of overall employees and organizational performance.      

            According to the research studies leadership can be democratic, autocratic, and participative (Iqbal, Anwar and Haider). Somehow, in organizations commonly adopted leadership style are transformational leadership style, transactional leadership style, and laissez-faire leadership.

             Babatunde and Emem in 2015, Held a research study in Nigerian organizations to collect information on the impact of leadership on employee's performance outcomes. In accordance to the research findings, communication style, situation handling style, decision-making style, and overall behavior of a leader directly influence the performance outcomes of the employees and workers at the workplaces (Babatunde and Emem).

              Research also discussed that how leaders can bring improvement in their leadership style though following effective communication styles and effective decision making qualities that will definitely help them out in improving their employee’s performance (Babatunde and Emem). Moreover, research also discussed the qualities and attributes of effective and ineffective leaders and outcomes of their behavior and styles on the performance and satisfaction level of their subordinates.  

            Sougui, Bon, and Hassan, in 2015, concluded that the optimal and effective leadership style can be a blend of transformational leadership and transactional leadership style. Each style has some limitations, therefore, focusing only one may not bring as effective outcomes as possible through the mixture of both leadership styles (Sougui, Bon and Hassan). Basically, leadership is a broad topic as well as most concerning the topic of today's organization. Leadership styles apply in each field of life to influence the behavior of other people and particularly when it comes to the organizations' employees and organizational performance directly depends upon it. Therefore even there are a number of research studies available on this topic but still, there is a need to study this topic and to work on the limitations and gaps of previous research studies.

4.      Methodology on The Impact of Leadership Style on Employees Performance

            Methodology section will provide information about the methods and logic steps used in this research study to accomplish research objectives and to carry out results. To elaborate on this important topic, an empirical research study will be conducted with the use of primary data collection method. Data will be collected through the quantitative data collection method. The research study will conduct a survey to collect information from the selected samples from the whole population. The questionnaire with structured formal questions will be used for the purpose of the survey. Selected samples of the research study contain a total of 300 employees from selected organizations.

Timeframe / Project Schedule Table of The Impact of Leadership Style on Employees Performance     

The following timeframe or project schedule table is based on the rough estimation of time required and allocated on each activity related to this research project.