Leadership Styles and Employee Performance at Mulago National Referral Hospital , Uganda

Abstract

This study was undertaken to assess the contribution of leadership styles towards employee performance at Mulago National Referral Hospital. It was guided by the following objectives namely; to examine the relationship between democratic leadership style and employee performance in Mulago Hospital, to examine the relationship between autocratic leadership style and employee performance in Mulago Hospital, and to examine the relationship between Laissez-faire leadership styles and employee performance in Mulago Hospital The study was guided by a cross sectional case study research design. The researcher used simple random sampling for support staff and purposive sampling for administrative staff and medical personnel. The researcher selected 103 participants as the sample for the study. The study found out that democratic leadership style had a positive effect on employee performance at Mulago Hospital with correlation coefficient of 0.040 at 0.01 level of significance and regression coefficient of 0.025 at 0.01 level of coefficient. The study also found out that autocratic leadership style and leissez faire leadership styles had a negative significant impact on employee performance with a correlation coefficience of -0.022 and -0.368 at 0.01 level of significance respectively. From the findings, the following recommendation were therefore made; Leaders should always engage juniors in decision making, Hospital administrators should establish an open door policy where all staff including those at lower ranks are allowed to enter each office in case of any information they want to obtain or extend to the management, hospital management should establish an environment where each stakeholder is considered important to the success of the hospital, Leaders should clearly state the rules and regulations that all employees need to abide with in order to improve on their performance and all employees should be given their duties and responsibilities as well as the guidelines to follow in order to perform their obligation