The Effect of Leadership Style on Employee Performance: the Case of Jambo Real Estate
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2023-06
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Addis Ababa University
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The main purpose of this study was to assess the effect of leadership style (transformational, transactional, authoritative, and democratic) on employee performance in Jambo real estate. In preparing this research, both primary and secondary data were used. The primary data were collected through questionnaires and crosschecked the reliability using the Cronbach alpha method. Whereas, secondary data had been obtained from the articles, websites, literatures, and journals. Using the sample size formula, the researcher decided 129 employees for the study from a population of 224 employees. Systematic Simple random sampling technique employed to identify these representative employees. The study proved that, there is an effect on employee performance when different leadership styles are practiced, there was a strong significant correlation between transformational leadership style and employee performance; P is computed using SPSS and found to be equal to 0.000. Democratic leadership style also found significantly correlated with employee performance; here also P computed and found to be equal to 0.000. Transactional leadership and authoritative leadership style less significantly related to employee performance. The finding will contribute primarily to the study area Jambo real estate to apply the recommended style dominantly to enhance their employee performance and secondly similar companies in the area could use the finding as input to make their business productive