THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LEADERSHIP STYLE AND PERFORMANCE OF PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS, A SCENARIO OF KADUNA STATE CIVIL SERVICE

Abstract

The going concern of any institution is of integral significance, but what is more important is the
ability of sustaining the goin concern. The world is now becoming a global village, competition is
now the order of the day if a business/public institution is unable to compete with its contemporary.
It will surely go out of business. There must be driver actor which moves the competition and puts
the organization longevity on the moves such actors or players is the leadership. The goal of this
paper is centralized on the relationship between the various leadership styles and its impact on the
Kaduna State civil service. There has been a plethora of successive government adopting
mutivarient styles of leadership over the years in Kaduna State since the inception of democracy in
1999. The research adopts the leadership practices inventory theory which is of the position that
performance has a relationship with leadership styles. Fainaly source of data was used for collection
of data through the instrument of questionnaires. The data retrieved from 240 respondents were
scrutinized and analyzed using the regression analysis