Appraisal of Leadership Styles on the Organisational Performance of National Agricultural Seeds Council, Abuja Nigeria

Abstract

The study examined leadership styles on the organisational performance of the national agricultural seeds council, Abuja. The focus of the study is to get rid of the market of fake and adulterated seeds and to see how leadership style could influence organisational performance optimally considering various leadership styles available and which of them could motivate the employees to work enthusiastically in achieving the desired result in National Agricultural Seeds Council, Abuja (NASC). The study adopted survey research design and with a structured questionnaire as the research instrument. The population of the study was 176 respondents. And the whole population was adopted since it was not too large. Out of 176 copies of questionnaire administered, 156 were returned which represented 88.6% of the return rate and was used for analysis. It was analysed using frequency distribution and simple percentages, while the multiple regression and correlation were used to test the hypotheses formulated. The results revealed that there exists a positive relationship between leadership styles and organisational performance. This showed that there is a significant positive effect of leadership style on the performance of the organisation. The study concludes that all leadership styles show a positive relationship to performance. Based on the findings, the study recommended that organisations should rather use a combination of different leadership styles depending on the organisation as no one leadership style is superior to the other.