Abstract:
The purpose for the study was to recognize how employee performance and
leadership style adopted at the Accra Metropolitan Assembly are related. This
study used the quantitative research method to study all the type of leadership
styles exhibited at the assembly. AMA has an estimated population of 150
employees at different levels of the organisation and departments. The study
used a questionnaire which was semi-structured as well as easy to administer
to gather data for the study. For purposes of data analysis, the study employed
SPSS version 26 to examine the primary data. The impacts of leadership style
on the productivity of the workforce of AMA were analysed. The study found
out that democratic leadership has positive but insignificantly related to
employees’ job discharge, autocratic leadership style also emerged to be
negative and insignificantly related to employees’ task discharge. Also,
paternalistic, charismatic and servant leadership style were found to be
negative and insignificantly related to employees’ task performance. Lastly,
visionary leadership style was found to be positively but insignificantly related
to employees’ task discharge in the Accra Metropolitan Assembly. The
presence of transformational, democratic, laissez faire and visionary
leadership style can have a significant impact on employee performance.
Considering the results discussed above, it is recommended that there should
be a well-crafted policy which will enforce a periodic leadership training to
department heads to boost the service productivity of the assembly.
