Assessment of Leadership style Practices: In the case of Admass University

Abstract

The general objective of this study was identifying the current practice of leadership styles in Admass University in Addis Ababa city administration. Leadership style is the behavior exhibited by a leader during supervision of subordinates. This research was tried to identify the current practice of dominant leadership styles and sub-elements of leadership characteristics in Admass University. Both Quantitative and qualitative research approach was applied to the study. Quantitative research method examines the relationship between the independent variables. Descriptive survey design was used. The questionnaires were distributed for 201 sample employees of the study. The participants of the study were selected using simple random sampling technique. From 201 distributed questionnaires, 162 samples were returned and used for analysis. The data was analyzed using descriptive statistics (such percentage, frequency, mean, standard deviation, and ANOVA). The descriptive result indicates that transactional leadership style was the most frequently used by the leaders of AU. The study recommends that the concerned body ought to design to leadership development programs for the leaders, leaders of the university need to pay attention to communication, both formal and informal, and leaders should not stick to only one form of leadership style. They should therefore find the appropriate combinations of the leadership styles that would achieve the organizational goals together with the individual targets or objectives of the employees.