Impact of Leadership Styles on Employee Performance

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Impact of Leadership Styles on Employee Performance
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction....................................................................................................................2
1.1 Overview................................................................................................................................2
1.2 Problem statement.................................................................................................................2
1.3 Research aim..........................................................................................................................3
1.4 Research objectives...............................................................................................................3
1.5 Research questions.................................................................................................................3
1.6 Research hypotheses..............................................................................................................3
1.7 Research rationale..................................................................................................................4
1.8 Structure of the dissertation...................................................................................................4
Chapter 2: Literature review............................................................................................................5
2.1 Leadership styles...................................................................................................................5
2.2 Types of leadership styles......................................................................................................5
2.3 Concept of employee performance........................................................................................6
2.4 Impact of leadership styles on employee performance..........................................................7
Chapter 3: Research methodology...................................................................................................8
3.1 Research philosophy..............................................................................................................8
3.2 Research approach.................................................................................................................8
3.3 Research design.....................................................................................................................8

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3.4 Research strategy...................................................................................................................9
3.5 Sampling technique and sample size.....................................................................................9
3.6 Data collection process..........................................................................................................9
3.7 Data analysis technique.......................................................................................................10
3.8 Accessibility issues..............................................................................................................10
3.9 Ethical considerations..........................................................................................................10
References......................................................................................................................................12

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Chapter 1: Introduction
1.1 Overview
The employees are the key pillars whose effort, hard work, dedication and commitment
help business organizations achieve greater heights and success. Adequate engagement and
commitment of the employees highlights improved performance that offers several benefits for
the business organizations. According to Nanjundeswaraswamy and Swamy (2014), leadership is
defined as the ability of the individuals to influence and inspire others for achieving goals, take
swift decisions and outperform the competitors. Different leadership styles are used and
practiced by the business organizations for ensuring effective and efficient performance out of
the employees successfully (De Hoogh, Greer and Den Hartog 2015).
1.2 Problem statement
Different types of leadership styles are applied and practiced by the business
organizations for bringing out the best from the employees thereby, ensuring improved employee
performance. One of the major problems that affect the performance of the employees is not
including them in the decision making process due to which they feel insignificant and less
valued for the business organizations (Yahaya and Ebrahim 2016). As a result, input from their
side is less and the employees lack adequate dedication, commitment and engagement towards
their job roles and responsibilities that affect their overall performance (De Hoogh, Greer and
Den Hartog 2015). Another issue that affects the performance of the employees is restricted
scope of creativity and flexibility that prohibits the employees to take extra initiatives and
innovative measures thereby, affecting the performance negatively (Saeed et al. 2014).