Abstract:
This study was purposed to investigate the effect of leadership behaviors on employee
performance. Specifically, the study identified the leadership behaviors exhibited by
managers in Guinness Ghana Breweries Limited (GGBL) in enhancing employee
performance and specific behaviors that affected the performance of the employees. The
study was conducted with the effect of three main leadership behaviors in mind, namely,
job-centeredness style, people centeredness style and democratic style on the
performance of employees. The data for this study was obtained by administering
questionnaire to the personnel in GGBL. The data received from the respondents were
analyzed with the help of statistical software program SPSS_17. To test for the
hypothesis, Pearson Coefficient correlation analysis was conducted to examine whether
the hypothesis was accepted or rejected. It was observed that strong correlation existed
between a job-centeredness leadership behavior exhibited by managers in Guinness
Ghana Breweries Limited and it’s employee performance. The job-centeredness
leadership behavior had significant positive effective on employee performance and
hence productivity. It implies the managers were very particular in attaining results and
thus only remunerated employees to give their best in order to increase their productivity.
People-centeredness and democratic behaviors were very insignificant and a few negative
correlations suggested a decrease in performance by employees, probably due to
management acting with strict internal rules to achieve results. It was recommended to
have a balanced leadership style to equally reflect much interest in people to enhance
employee performance for a competitive advantage.
Description:
A Dissertation in the Department of Management Studies Education, Faculty of
Business Education, submitted to the School of Graduate Studies, University of
Education, Winneba, in partial fulfilment of the requirements for award of the
Master of Business Administration (Organisational Behaviour and Human Resource
Management) degree.
AUGUST, 2017