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CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

1.1                 Background to the Study

                      The productivity of any enterprise or the life spans of an organization, whether large or small is directly proportional to the finality of its leadership. In the light of fact, an organization or community will only succeed, towards the achievement of a group goal, only if the reign of a leader exists. Thus; a leader is someone who has the ability to inspire, motivate and use power effectively and in a responsible manner towards the achievement of a goal considering this, leadership can simply be define as the act or process of influencing people, so that they will strive willingly and enthusiastically towards the achievement of a group goals.

Yusuf (2001) argues that the ability of any organization to achieve its desire goals and objectives depends on the nature of its leadership. However empirical evidence has tends to show that leadership plays very significant roles in effective and efficiency of any organization. Ogunsan 91985) and Ochia (1987) admitted in their study that leadership skill were very effective in enhancing productivity. Hence, leadership has a significant managerial factors and ingredients in the success of any organization.

Ingredient of Leadership

1. The ability to use power effectively and in a responsible manner.
2. The ability to inspire
3. The ability to comprehend that human being has different motivational forces at different time and in different situation.
4. The ability to act in a manner that will develop a climate conducive to responding to and arousing motivation.

Thus, the move a leader understand what motivate their subordinate and how these motivation operate the better the actualization of a group goal, David Mann (1985) sees styles of leadership as some of the basic requirement for achieving good management, administration and good leadership. Leadership styles may be defined as a designing pattern of behaviour used in integrating both the organization and personal interest in achieving the organization aim and objectives. Furthermore, these styles of leadership are many but three are commonly in used in most establishment; free vein leadership style, autocratic leadership style and democratic leadership style. It is generally believed that good leadership style will increase organizational productivity, lower unit cost, high morale sustain and improve management- labour relationship (Nwachukwu 1988).

• Statement to the Study

Over the year, scholar have extensively research on the effective leadership styles in an organization. Prominent among then are Stodgill, Fieldler Likert, Blade and Monton, Tennenbaum and so forth.

Leadership have been seen involving a variety of styles, ranging from one that is highly boos-centered to that is highly subordinate with suggestion that no one style is always right and another is not always wrong in the context of business and services industries to achieve goals. More so, for manager or leader at appropriate leadership styles in an establishment, some situational factors need to be considered. These include position power, task structure and leader member relations.

1.3                 Aim and Objectives of the Study\

The aim of this research is to examine critically the impact of leadership style on organizational productivity.

The objectives of this study are as follows:

1. To explain what is meant by leadership style
2. To describe various types of leadership style
3. To examine how leadership styles can improve organizational productivity and create good leader member relations.
4. To make recommendations as to how leadership style can exercise positive impact on organizational productivity.

1.4   Significance of the Study

       The importance of the research study is:

1. It helps to identify leadership style to be put forth by the manager in the organization, to ensure high moral and high productivity among the staff of PHCN Plc Ilorin.
2. The study identifies the advantages and disadvantages associated with different leadership styles under particular condition.
3. Finally, it point out how motivational forces affects the productivity of staff.

1.5   Research Questions

It is unlikely that a leadership style that worked yesterday would be successful in today’s administration. Considering this 3 major questions’ what, where & how are being asked.

1. What is the current situation of the organization? What leadership style is in use? What changes are expected by adopting a new leadership style?
2. Where are we taking the organization? How much growth do we need? What is the targeted goal? What are the social objectives of the organization?
3. How can we get there from here? This is the important part of question, as it proffer the leadership style to be adopted which in turn give solution to the above other question asked.
4. Task structure – how does a task structure affect the subordinate productivity?
5. What are the impact of highly based – centered and their subordinate?
6. The effect of the degree of freedom granted to subordinate by their leader.

The following research questions are set out purpose of this study.

• Scope of the Study

This research examines the impact of leadership style on organizational productivity of power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) formally NEPA, with strict emphasis on administration, marking and distribution section of the organization, as they are the major focus on the achievement of the organization goals.

 

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