Abstract:
Factors affecting the leadership practice of public organization is considered as one of
the major ways in the least developed countries. Studies on Factors affecting the
leadership in public organizations can be of immense importance as such studies could
provide an important input for better performance of the organizations. This study
therefore intends to explore the Factors affecting the leadership practice in the public
organizations of town administration in Mizan Aman. Data will be collected using
structured questionnaires from 170 employees working in the town administration of
Mizan Aman and the researcher employed both probability and non-probability random
sampling technique and also the researcher utilized both primary source of data and
secondary source of data. Both descriptive and inferential analyses were carried out
using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS). Correlation analysis was conducted
to determine the significance of the relationship between environmental and
organizational factors, and organizations in the town administration. In addition,
regression and analysis of variance are conducted. The bivariate correlation analysis
showed that all the three independent variables used in this study have significant
correlation with organizational Factors Affecting Leadership Practice of Public
Organization of the town administration. A multiple regression analysis on the effect of
organizational capacity (OC), organizational motivation (OM) and external
environmental factors (EE) on the organizational leadership (OL) of public organizations
showed that three independent variables can explain 84% the variation of the
organizational Factors Affecting Leadership Practice of Public Organization of the town
administration as represented by the adjusted R2
. Analysis of variance also showed that
there is a meaningful relationship between organizational leadership and its
determinants namely organizational capacity, organizational staff development and
motivation and external environmental variables. Hence, it is recommended that the town
administration should give due attention to these variables to ensure sustained and better
organizational performance.
