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A study of the relationship between leadership style and performance - a focus on South African listed and non-listed companies
Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2010.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/24393 A study of the relationship between leadership style and performance - a focus on South African listed and non-listed companies Raina, Rajinder upetd@up.ac.za Matshekga, Lesetsa UCTD Leadership styles Performance Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2010. The topics of leadership and strategy have attracted considerable interest from both academics and practitioners. Much of the interest in the two areas is based on explicit and implicit claims that both leadership and strategy are linked to organisational performance. This paper examines the nature of the relationship between participative leadership style and performance, and authoritative leadership style and performance. The study hypothesised that authoritative leadership style leads to achievement of the objectives of a strategic plan (hypothesis 1), and that participative leadership style leads to achievement of the objectives of a strategic plan (hypothesis 2). The research was a quantitative study. Data was collected by means of a questionnaire, which was emailed to 200 randomly selected respondents. 48 responses were received. This represents a total response rate of 24%. Of the total 48 responses, 10 were eliminated from the study due to errors. A linear regression method was used to test the hypotheses. The regression analyses have revealed that participative leadership style and performance, and authoritative leadership style and performance are not related. The two variables each explain less than 1% of the variance in performance. As a result, both null hypotheses were not rejected. The paper concludes with a number of implications for future research studies. Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) unrestricted 2013-09-06T17:25:49Z 2010-07-07 2013-09-06T17:25:49Z 2010-04-11 2010-07-07 2010-05-06 Dissertation Matshekga, L 2009, A study of the relationship between leadership style and performance – a focus on South African listed and non-listed companies, MBA dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/24393 > G10/339/ag http://hdl.handle.net/2263/24393 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-05062010-134654/ © 2009 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Leadership styles Performance A study of the relationship between leadership style and performance - a focus on South African listed and non-listed companies |
| title | A study of the relationship between leadership style and performance - a focus on South African listed and non-listed companies |
| title_full | A study of the relationship between leadership style and performance - a focus on South African listed and non-listed companies |
| title_fullStr | A study of the relationship between leadership style and performance - a focus on South African listed and non-listed companies |
| title_full_unstemmed | A study of the relationship between leadership style and performance - a focus on South African listed and non-listed companies |
| title_short | A study of the relationship between leadership style and performance - a focus on South African listed and non-listed companies |
| title_sort | study of the relationship between leadership style and performance a focus on south african listed and non listed companies |
| topic | UCTD Leadership styles Performance |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/24393 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-05062010-134654/ |