Leadership Style and Employee Performance at Berekum Senior High School

Abstract

Leadership styles have been recognised to have immense impact on the performance and growth of employees and invariably organisational performances. However, in Ghana, students’ academic performances have been declining and poor staff performances resulting from unclear leadership styles have been found to be a major contributor. It is therefore relevant to examine the influence of leadership styles on staff performance in Ghana focusing on Berekum Senior High School. The study employed the quantitative approach and causal research design due to its research objectives. The simple random sampling technique was employed to solicit for information from 90 academic staff of the school. However, data obtained from 89 respondents with a 98.89% response rate were reliable and thus used for the study. Both descriptive and inferential statistical tools such as frequencies, percentages, means, standard deviations and linear regression were employed to analyse data obtained from structured questionnaires. The study found that, democratic leadership style was the most preferred leadership style of management. Also, the study found that both transactional and transformational leadership styles had positive significant influence on staff performance at the school. The study therefore recommended that, management should continue to improve upon the democratic leadership style by constantly ensuring representativeness or organisational cohesion. It was also recommended that, policy makers in the educational sector including management of Berekum Senior High School should improve current policies geared towards employee development.