EFFECT OF LEADERSHIP STYLES ON PERFORMANCE OF TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS IN ADAMAWA STATE, NIGERIA

Abstract

The study aimed at assessing the effect of leadership styles on the Performance of
selected tertiary institutions in Adamawa state. The main objective of this study was to
assess the effect of different leadership styles (democratic and autocratic leadership
styles) on organizational performance (growth and commitment). The study was guided
by two research objectives and two research hypotheses. A survey research strategy was
adopted, 3887 staff of Adamawa State University Mubi, Federal Polytechnic Mubi and
College of Education Hong was use as population of the study, and 401 employees were
selected as a sample size using Yamani formula. Questionnaire designed on five point
Likert scale ranging from strongly disagree (1) to strongly agree (5) was used as data
collection instrument. Regression analysis was used as instrument to examine the effects
of leadership style on performance. The findings of this study shows that democratic
leadership styles has positive significant effects on organizational growth and autocratic
leadership styles has negative effects on organizational commitment. The findings of this
research show that democratic leadership style lead to rapid growth. Therefore,
organization that requires rapid growth should adopt democratic leadership style. This
study suggests that future researchers should extend the research to profit making
organization and include other variable of dependent and independent variable.