Abstract:
The study aimed to examine the impact of leadership styles on organizational performance. For
this study, the study employed a survey research design and generated data primarily through
the use of a questionnaire to select youth and sports office staff of West Wollega Zone. The study
focused on five major leadership styles -transformational, transactional, autocratic, democratic,
and laissez-faire. The target population will be government employees from five selected districts
and one town administration that have direct and practical bonds with youth and sports office
management and control activities in the offices, while the available populations are a sample of
71 which the researcher will select by the application of purposive sampling. The researcher
generated data through administering questionnaires to the districts. The study applied
descriptive and explanatory research design to analyze and interpret data that make it possible
to conclude the impact of leadership styles on the organizational performance of youth and
sports offices in the zone. To analyze the impact of leadership styles on office performance the
study used five independent variables that were mostly taken as leadership styles practiced in
Youth and Sports offices of selected districts of the zone. Therefore, the study adopted multiple
linear regression analysis to determine the impact of leadership styles on organizational
performance in the study area. The result of multiple linear regression analyses confirmed that
from five leadership styles used three variables namely: autocratic, democratic, and
transformational leadership have a positive and significant effect on the performance of Youth
and Sports offices while transactional leadership has a negative and significant effect on Youth
and Sports Office performance. Finally, the study has recommended that Youth and Sports
Offices should use leadership styles (transformational, democratic, and autocratic) that enhance
the capabilities and abilities of the employees and office performance in the zone.
