The Impact of Leadership Styles On Organizational Performance in the West Wollega Zone Youth And Sports Offices

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.