Abstract:
The main objective of the study was to assess the influence of leadership skills to entrepreneurship
success in Tanzania. The research was guided by the several objectives which include; to identify
leadership skills required to lead a successful entrepreneurship business, secondly to examine
environmental factors that affect entrepreneurial business and lastly, to investigate any
demographic factors such as age, gender, education that affect leadership skills of the entrepreneur.
The researcher uses various theories include Transformational, Transactional and Entrepreneurial
Leadership Theory, Furthermore, the researcher uses cross-sectional research with quantitative
approach were by data was collected using questionnaire from a sample of 353 respondents from
the study area. A homogenous sample of entrepreneurs were selected for this study using purposive
sampling and Data were analyzed using Likert scale scores to determine the influence of leadership
skills to entrepreneurship success in Tanzania.
Findings indicated that, self-confidence, decision-making ability, and determination to achieve goals
constitute the highly rated leadership skills required to lead entrepreneurial businesses. On the
other hand, the researcher found that, the main environmental factors that affect entrepreneurial
business were need to combat corruption. Moreover, Spearman correlations were used for the
demographic variables with the leadership scale score. Inspection of the results found the
leadership scale score was not significantly related to gender, age, and education level. The
researcher recommended that, the government through the ministry of investment, industries and
business should help the entrepreneurs to grow by providing more education about leadership skills
so as to achieve outstanding success in their business, universities should also ensure the coaching
and mentoring of entrepreneurs to give more confidence, self-discipline and skills of leading the
business.
