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.
