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Afolabi, Ayomide Rachael (2022) Impact of Organisational Leadership Styles on Employee Performance – A Case Study of a Selected Healthcare Sector in Nigeria. Masters thesis, Dublin, National College of Ireland.
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Leadership is critical in determining an organisation's success at all levels, including in the healthcare industry. The ideal healthcare industry provides quality and affordable healthcare to the public. However, Nigeria‘s healthcare system faces several challenges, and good leadership in this industry can favour staff and patient care quality. In light of these, many organisations have to experiment with various innovations to improve employee and organisational performance through effective leadership styles. Hence, this study assesses the impact of autocratic, transformational, and transactional leadership on employee performance at a selected tertiary healthcare institution.
This research adopts a cross-sectional study design to elicit responses from the research population comprising one hundred non-management employees and ten management employees. A 30-item validated questionnaire collected information from the respondents and analysed research questions and hypotheses using SPSS version 26. The results reveal that this institution's managers mainly apply transformational leadership. Both the transformational and transactional leadership styles positively impact employee performance; however, transformational leadership had a more significant impact than transactional leadership. In addition, the authoritarian style of leadership negatively affects employee performance.
The findings of this study suggest that adopting and preferring a specific leadership style is not always the case because the healthcare sector is a complex and dynamic institution. While this study focused on only three leadership styles, there is still room for further research on other aspects of leadership styles in the health sector and a comparative analysis between private and public facilities.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Supervisors: | Name Email Deane, Ciara UNSPECIFIED |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Leadership Style; Transformational; Transactional; Autocratic; Healthcare; Employee performance |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management R Medicine > Healthcare Industry H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management > Human Resource Management > Performance Management |
| Divisions: | School of Business > Master of Science in Management |
| Depositing User: | Tamara Malone |
| Date Deposited: | 06 Apr 2023 14:56 |
| Last Modified: | 06 Apr 2023 14:56 |
| URI: | https://norma.ncirl.ie/id/eprint/6409 |
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