An Assessment on the Effect of Leadership Styles on the Employee Performance: A Case of Namibia Dairies in Namibia

Abstract

The paper examines the effect of leadership styles on the employee performance a case of Namibia dairies. From the study, it was discovered that the type of leadership style that managers use influences the morale of the employees. This study adopted a qualitative research approach using a case study design. A case study is a qualitative research method that allows a deep exploration within a natural context and hence provides a full and through understanding of the particular and lived experience of a participant. The study has 15 participants who were selected using non-probability sampling method. The results also highlighted that some of the leadership styles that are used by managers stifles employee morale thereby affecting the employees’ efficiency in an organisation. The study findings also indicated that there was significant positive relationship between democratic leadership and employee performance. The study findings furthermore indicated that there was significant positive relationship between democratic leadership and employee performance. Whilst the study results revealed that laissez-faire leadership style and individual performance has a negative relationship. The study recommends that democratic leadership style should be encouraged, for the fact that it would further empower their subordinates by developing teams and accord some measure of responsibility and authority to their employees. Therefore, workers would ignite their potentials, realize job satisfaction, and execute their tasks maximally for organization survival.