The effects of leadership style on Employees Engagement at Commercial Bank of Ethiopia East Addis Ababa District
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2019-06
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Addis Ababa University
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The main objective of the study was to examine effects of leadership style on employee engagement. A total of 242 questioner were distributed out of this 239 respondents completed the MLQ and Gallup 12 item survey questionnaires. The study employed both Descriptive and explanatory research design. Primary and secondary sources of data were used in the study. In addition the study employed a stratified random sampling method to collect data from professional employees of commercial bank of Ethiopia found in ten Grade 4 branches under East Addis Ababa District. The collected data was analysed using SPSS software version 22. In addition, to analyse the collected data descriptive statistics (frequencies means & standard deviations), correlation & regression analysis were used. The descriptive statistics result showed that the employees exhibited a great extentlevel of engagement and the dominant leadership style at the organization is transactional leadership. The Correlation and regression analysis also showed there is a relationship between the effect of leadership style (Independents Variables) and Employees Engagement (Dependent Variable).In addition the result of peerson correlation revealed that significant positive relationship is found between Leadership style and Employee Engagement. At last the researcher suggested that since the effect of leadership style has a significant effect on employee engagement, it is recommended that using various leadership styles will bring more effectiveness and enhance employee performance
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Transformational Leadership, Transactional Leadership, Laissez-faire leadership