Leadership Styles and Employee Performance: Empirical Evidence from Selected Banks in Edo State

Abstract

The paper examined the extent to which leadership style (democratic, autocratic and transactional) affect employee performance among selected banks in Edo State. The research design for the study was survey. Questionnaires were administered to elicit responses from employees in the selected banks in Edo State. A total number of two hundred (220) questionnaires were conveniently distributed among the sampled banks. A total of 200 questionnaires were retrieved amounting to (87.3%) response rate. Thus, the analyses were based on 200 questionnaires. The findings from the study indicated that all the style of leadership were positive and significant to employee performance except autocratic style which was positive but not significant to employee performance.