Leadership Styles and Motivation on Employee Performance in Hospitality Industry

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Leadership Styles and Motivation on Employee Performance in Hospitality Industry
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction:................................................................................................................................1
1.1Context:...................................................................................................................................1
1.2 Problem Statement:................................................................................................................2
1.3 Purpose and Aims:.................................................................................................................3
1.3.1 Research Objectives:.......................................................................................................4
1.3.2 Research Questions:........................................................................................................4
2. Literature Review:.......................................................................................................................4
2.1 Leadership Styles...................................................................................................................4
2.2 Employee Motivation.............................................................................................................5
2.3 Impact of Leadership Style and Employee Motivation on Performance...............................5
3. Research Methodology................................................................................................................5
3.1 Research Design.....................................................................................................................5
3.4 Data Collection......................................................................................................................6
3.5 Sampling and Sample size:....................................................................................................7
3.6 Ethical Consideration:............................................................................................................7
4. Thesis Structure........................................................................................................................8
5. Timetable for Project:..................................................................................................................9
References:....................................................................................................................................10

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1. Introduction:
1.1Context:
The key driving forces resulting in most of the human endeavors are leadership and
motivation (Alghazo & Al-Anazi, 2016). Various flourishing business organizations like the
Apple, Barclays and Microsoft have a great history of leadership. According to Buble, Juras &
Matić (2014), leadership represents a process of having remarkable influence on subordinates
where he or she remains motivated towards achieving specific objectives while maintaining
cooperation. The key principle of leadership lies in influencing the relationship between the
followers and the leaders thereby generating effective behavior and interest along with
generating effective behavior and interest towards reaching the defined objectives and goals of
the organization. However, there lies the need for distinguishing between the managers, leaders
or the supervisors. Although, supervisors or managers remains in leadership positions they are
not considered as leaders until the subordinates consider them as one. In other words, managers
are seen to do things right while the leaders do the right things. As leadership and motivation are
complementary aspects since good leadership resulted in employee motivation and vice versa so
the researchers decided in looking forward to the combined impact of both in the achievement of
the organizational goals. This particular research study focuses on the assessment of the
leadership style and motivation on the performance of employees specifically in the hospitality
industry. Although there has been innumerable research work on relationship between the
leadership and the motivation there is not much done in regard to the hospitality sector.

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Therefore, the research has been designed to bridge the gaps in the research and also shed some
light on the theme.
1.2 Problem Statement:
The hospitality industry is surrounded by various problems which include low patronage,
higher turnover of labor, dissatisfaction of customers and shutdowns. However, researcher
believe that kind of leadership styles portrayed by managers has been found to motivate the
subordinates and helps in achieving the organizational goals that includes lowering employee
turnover, lesser customer complaints, lower absenteeism and lower level of organizational
efficiency. Besides, leadership style customarily leads to desperation or inspiration amongst
employees thereby resulting in decreased or increased levels of productivity.
Based on the above assumption, the researcher decided to undertake the study for
accessing the role of the leadership style in motivating the performance of the subordinates with
the hospitality industry. The findings of the research will help in assisting future research
undertaken on similar topics.
1.3 Purpose and Aims:
The purpose of this particular study lies in investigating how the various leadership styles
and the aspect of motivation have an impact on the employee performance within the hospitality
industry
1.3.1 Research Objectives:
 To find out the leadership style that is more prominent in influencing employee
performance within the hospitality industry