THE IMPACT OF LEADERSHIP STYLES ON THE PERFORMANCE OF WORKERS CASE STUDY: KAKIRA SUGAR WORKS (1985) LTD KAKIRA

TABLE OF CONTENTS

DECLARATION

APPROVAL ii

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT III

DEDICATION iv

TABLE OF CONTENTS V

ABSTRACT vii

LIST OF TABLES viii

LIST OF FIGURE ix

CHAPTER ONE 1

INTRODUCTION 1

1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY 1

1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM 4

1.3 THE PURPOSE OF THE STUDY 4

1,4 OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY 4

1.6 RESEARCH QUESTIONS

1.6 THE SCOPE OF THE STUDY 4

1.7 THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY/JUSTIFICATION OF THE STUDY 5

CHAPTER TWO 6

REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE 6

2.0 INTRODUCTION 6

2.1 LEADER SHIP STYLES 6

BEAUCRATIC MANAGEMENT STYLE 7

2.2 PERFORMANCE 13

2.3 LEADERSHIP STYLES AND PERFORMANCE 17

2.4 CONCLUSION 19

METHODOLOGY 20

3.0 INTRODUCTION 20

3.1 RESEARCH DESIGN 20

3.2 POPULATION AND SAMPLE SELECTION 20

3.3 DATASOURCE 20

3.3.1 SECONDARY DATA 20

3.3.2 PRIMARY DATA 20

3.4 DATA COLLECTION .20

3.4.1 INTERVIEW 20

3.4.2 QUESTIONNAIRE; 21

3.5 DATA ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION 21

CHAPTER FOUR 22

PRESENTATION AND DISCUSION OF FINDINGS 22

4.O INTRODUCTION 22

4.l Respondents profile 22

4.2 Discussion of the key findings 24

4.2.1 Impact of leadership style as revealed by administrators 24

4.2.2 Impact of leadership styles as revealed by workers 25

4.4.3 Problems associated with leadership style on performance of workers 26

CHAPTER FIVE 28

SUMMARY OF FINDINGS, CONCLUSIONS, AND RECOMMANDATION 28

5.l Summary of findings 28

5.2 Conclusions 28

5.3 RECOMMANDATION 29

REFERENCES 30

QUESTIONNAIRES FOR WORKERS 31

ABSTRACT 

The topic of the study will be to determine the impact of leadership styles on performance of workers of kakira sugar works (1985) ltd. The subjects to be involved in this study will be the employees and management. The researcher will involve two middle managers and two senior managers as well as ten employees. The researcher will carry out this study in kakira sugar works (1985) ltd because the company has good information that will be vital to the researcher. The objectives of the study will be to; -To establish the response of workers of kakira sugar works towards the different leadership styles. -To determine the relationship between the leadership styles and the performance of workers in kakira sugar works (1985) ltd. -To ascertain the level of performance of workers in kakira sugar works (1985) ltd. The instruments that will be used by the researcher are the questionnaire, interview schedules. The researcher will use questionnaire instrument because it provides average information on the study. The interview method will be used because it’s cheap and saves time. Data will be collected and analyzed both quantitatively and qualitatively by use of frequency, percentages and narrative representation respectively then later it will be presented in tables for interpretation.