The effect of leadership style on employee performance in the case of ministry of education and higher studies of Somaliland

Abstract

The effective leaders are enablers that directly points to competent and committed employees. Studies in the organizational psychology and organizational behavior literatures have shown that leadership styles and employee commitment are of major factors to the organizational success or failure. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of leadership styles on employee work performance on ministry of education and higher studies of Somaliland, there was many leadership styles so the researcher selected four styles which was basically various researchers identified namely: autocratic, transformational, democratic, and transactional leadership styles. In addition, the end result has pointed out that autocratic style of leadership negatively affected the employee performance in the ministry which is explained in terms of high absenteeism, low productivity, deterioration of work quality, and turnover. The application of democratic, transformational, and transactional leadership styles has got a positive and significant impact on the employees’ performance which is measured in terms of high employee productivity, satisfaction, cooperation, and commitment. As outcome, it can be inferred that the democratic, transactional and transformational leadership styles have a positive relationship with the employee performance while the autocratic style has a negative relationship with the performance of the employees. The company is also advised to pursue and strengthened further its strong sides of exercising some features of the democratic leadership style that has a positive contribution to its performance