Leadership style and employees’ commitment at Sefwi Wiawso Municipal Education Directorate, Ghana

Abstract

The study sought to find out the relationship between leadership style and employees’ commitment in Sefwi Wiawso Municipal Education Directorate. Specifically, the study sought to achieve the following: find out the leadership styles being exhibited by the management, the effect of leadership styles on affective commitment level of staff, examine the effect of leadership styles on the normative commitment level of staff and assess the effect of leadership styles on the continuance commitment level of staff of the Sefwi Wiawso Municipal Education Directorate. The research approach adopted was the quantitative and a descriptive survey design was used. The target population consisted both senior and junior staff totaling 147. Out of 147, 110 employees were randomly sampled. The research instrument was questionnaires. The study found a weak positive correlation between the leadership variable and employee affective commitment at the education directorate, indicating that leadership at the directorate explains a small amount of affective commitment variance and has a statistically significant effect on affective commitment at the directorate. At the Sefwi Wiawso Municipal Education Directorate, it was determined that there was a statistically significant association between leadership and staff commitment (affective, normative, and continuance). The study recommends that the Sefwi Wiawso Municipal Education Directorate's management maintain credibility in the application of various leadership strategies in order to increase employee commitment. These may involve assuring system upgrades in determining the success of their demonstrated leadership behaviours.