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.
