The Impact of Leadership Styles on Organisation Performance:

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to assess the impact of leadership style on organization performance: A case of Arusha Municipal Council in Arusha region, Tanzania. Specifically, the study aimed to examine employees’ perception on the practice of leadership style, to investigate types of leadership styles on course of managing the organization and to evaluate the contributions/impact of Leadership Styles on Employee performance. The research design used is descriptive. The sample size composed of 200 respondents who are employees working with Arusha Municipal Council. The study used questionnaires and interview as the primary research instrument. The findings revealed that to some extent employee’s perception have impacts on organizational performance and has positive and strong relation with all attributes of organizational performance, also revealed that to some extent the leadership styles has impacts on organizational performance and the type of leadership styles has positive and strong relationship with all attributes of organizational performance and then, the leadership styles contribute on organizational performance and contribution of leadership styles has positive and strong relationship with attributes of organizational performance. The study recommendation public institutions should invest in collecting employees’ perceptions through formal meetings and other approaches for the purpose of improving organizational performance. Also, the public leaders should equip leaders with various leadership styles so that they may be able to use any leadership styles based on the situation and the requirement of the environment. Furthermore, the administrative policies, principles and guidelines should be improved.