Wick Hill: Leadership Styles and Employee Performance Investigation

This report investigates the impact of leadership styles on employee performance and productivity within Wick Hill, a computer hardware and software organization. The research aims to identify the significance of leadership styles, including transformational, transactional, and laissez-faire approaches, on employee outcomes. The report includes an introduction outlining the research overview, aim, objectives, and research questions. A literature review addresses existing research gaps, followed by a description of the research methodology, which involves primary and secondary data collection methods. The primary data collection uses questionnaires, while secondary data is gathered from books and journals. The report concludes with a list of references, including books, journals, and online resources, supporting the research findings and analysis of leadership's influence on employee productivity and performance within the organization.

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Table of Contents
Topic................................................................................................................................................4
CHAPTER1: INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................................4
Overview of the research ............................................................................................................4
Aim..............................................................................................................................................4
Objectives....................................................................................................................................4
Question.......................................................................................................................................4
CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW ........................................................................................5
CHAPTER 3: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY ............................................................................5
REFERENCE ..................................................................................................................................6

Topic
“An investigation into the impact of leadership style on employee's performance and
productivity within an organisation. A study on Wick Hill.
CHAPTER1: INTRODUCTION
Overview of the research
Leadership is a process in which leader guide individuals towards accomplishment of
organisation goals and objectives in a well defined manner. With the help of this workforce can
be effectively lead towards organisational objectives with cooperation and coordination (Muller
and Turner, 2017). Thus, it has been evaluated that leadership is one of the most important aspect
with the help of which organisation can lead their workforce towards more successful growth.
There are different types of leadership styles such as transformational, transactional and laissez-
faire. All these are most essential styles of leadership which will help an enterprise to improve
employee's performance and productivity easily. For this report, Wick Hill is chosen computer
hardware and software organisation. Along with this, main purpose of doing this research is to
identify significance of leadership styles on performance and productivity of workers within
Wick Hill.
Aim
Main aim of this research is“To identify impact of leadership on employee’s productivity
within an organisation”. A study on Wick Hill”.
Objectives
 To develop basic understanding regarding the phenomena of leadership.
 To identify importance of leadership style in improving productivity of employees.
 To analyses impact of leadership style on employee's performance.
 Recommend different ways through which Wick Hill can easily enhance productivity
and performance of their employees.
Question
 What is the basic phenomena of leadership?
 What are the importance of leadership style in improving productivity of employees.?

 How does leadership style impact on employee's productivity and performance also?
CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW
A literature review is most essential section of research project which will help in
identification of gaps in previous study (Sfantou and et. al., 2017). In this part of research all
objectives and questions of research will be address in systematic manner.
According to the Susan Ward, 2019, Leadership introduces as an art of encouraging a
group of individual to act towards accomplishing a common business goal and objective of
Wick Hill. Transformational, transactional and laissez-faire are identify most useful type of
leadership style which will directly impact on employee's performance and productivity within
an organisation.
CHAPTER 3: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
Research methodology is essential process which will be used for accumulating reliable
data regarding the significance of leadership styles on worker's performance as well as
productivity also (Van der Voet, 2016). In this section different methods have been included in
which some useful methods are determined as under:
Data collection: In order to conduct this research, researcher takes advantage of primary
and secondary data collection method as to collect data in well effective form. For collecting
primary information, questionnaire will be applied whereas for gathering secondary data, books,
journals etc. sources will be applied (Zhang and et. al., 2015). Therefore both primary and
secondary source of data collection is useful for an organisation or researcher to collect
information in form of quality and quantitative.

REFERENCE
Books and Journals
Muller, R. and Turner, J. R., 2017. Project-oriented leadership. Routledge.
Sfantou, D. and et. al., 2017, October. Importance of leadership style towards quality of care
measures in healthcare settings: a systematic review. In Healthcare (Vol. 5, No. 4, p.
73). Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute.
Van der Voet, J., 2016. Change leadership and public sector organizational change: Examining
the interactions of transformational leadership style and red tape. The American Review
of Public Administration. 46(6). pp.660-682.
Zhang, J. and et. al., 2015. The effect of leadership style on talent retention during merger and
acquisition integration: Evidence from China. The International Journal of Human
Resource Management. 26(7). pp.1021-1050.
Online
Susan Ward. 2019. Leadership Definition. [Online]. Available
through:<https://www.thebalancesmb.com/leadership-definition-2948275>.