The impact of leadership style on employees' performance

It’s a fact that the main reason for existence of all companies without exception is the achievement of their goals. Achieving goals also means knowing how to resolve problems, difficulties and obstacles that may arise. Yet today, according to research and statistical data, a significant number of companies complain about employee’s performance at work. So, companies must give importance to this aspect to better evolve. Among obstacles that could be a hindrance, the leadership style adopted, level of satisfaction of employees and their performance are among them. And it’s one of the keys for a company’s success. The ideal would be knowing how to find a balance in relation with all these points and being able to obtain the desired result. Starting from there, the main purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between leadership style and employee’s performance. Thus, with in-depth research and analysis, this study allows companies to better understand the sources of the problem, the solutions to resolve it, and the ways to achieve it. For this purpose, some leadership styles like democratic, autocratic and laissez-faire are known as independent variable. The data and a part of all information have been collected via survey questionnaire based on closed-ended MLQ, from a sample of 120 workers in different sectors of activities. For testing hypotheses of the study and having qualities results, descriptive statistics, rehabilitee statistics have been used. According to remarks, autocratic leadership is the most applied. However, it has been noted that it the style which impact negatively the performance of an important category of employees. The others styles like democratic are consider as the less used while it impacts positively employee’s performance. And finally, it’s a shame because it’s the most desired and unfortunately the least applied. According to the result of the research, it’s so important to be a very intelligent, analyst and strategic leader who is able to be flexible whatever the situation, and who can coach and increase employee’s performance level.