leadership styles, employee commitment and production efficiency of selected state institutions in Ghana

Abstract

Today's unpredictable corporate environment presents challenges for management, forcing many institutions to fight for existence. Such strategic measures to survive the competition are propelled by the leadership style provided by leaders, who must inspire employee commitment to achieve production efficiency while influencing others to realize institutional goals. The main goal of the study was to analyse employee commitment, leadership styles, and production efficiency to provide knowledge resources that would increase the productivity of Ghanaian state institutions. A quasi-experimental research design was employed by the researcher. With surveys serving as the main instrument, much of the data came from primary sources. Responses to the study were acquired using stratified random sampling. SPSS was used to process the data. For data analysis, chi-square, regression, and correlation were employed as methods. The three aspects of employee commitment—Affective, Normative, and Continuance—as well as four important leadership styles—Transformational, Transactional, Laissez-faire, and charismatic—were examined in this study. The findings demonstrated that different leaders in State Institutions use different leadership styles. Furthermore, the results revealed that laissez-faire leadership dominates all other leadership styles in state institutions in Ghana and doesn’t contribute to effective production efficiency. It was discovered that for a state institution to increase production, the leadership should be selected based on merit and not political appointments. It was further discussed that proper productivity measurement should be instituted in State Institutions to ensure production efficiency. The study found that the determinants of Leadership style are personal characteristics (inducing trust, inspiring a shared vision, influence from organizational culture, external environment, past experiences and expectations of the leader, and the group's culture and politics of the group. According to the study, employees with a sense of belonging to the organization exhibit commitment traits (causing trust, inspiring a common goal, creating enthusiasm, enabling innovation, offering guidance, and acknowledging achievements). The policy on the nomination of the executive management team, policy on output measurement, accounting and procedures manual policy, policy on technology, policy on incentives, and policy on cross-cutting concerns are all system policy requirements for improved leadership style and employee commitment that leads to production efficiency.