Influence of Leadership Style on Employee Motivation and Organizational Performance in Public Sector Institutions

Abstract

Success of an organization is associated closely with leadership. Leadership has critical importance for enabling an organization to perform and keep staffs motivated towards the accomplishment of mission, vision and goal of an organization.  In this case, research provides value added information to know how the leadership style can contribute to the employee motivation and organization performance in the government primary schools at taluka Khairpur in Sindh, in Pakistan. It only focused on a single leadership style, the transformational to determine its effect at the level of ensuring that employees are motivated and performance of an organization in the government primary schools in taluka Khairpur. This analytical paper revealed the valuable information that leadership style, transformational created great impact positively on employee motivation and organizational performance. The research paradigm, used in this quantitative research, is founded on the positivism philosophical approach. The main study carried out by means of deductive method and survey method using survey tool, the questionnaire. This research had to know the implications of transformational leadership style for employee motivation and organizational performance in government primary schools of taluka Khairpur, Sindh. The facts of significance entered the knowledge through the gathering of secondary data whatever were already provided in literature towards the realization of goals of research, as well. Results of this study revealed that transformational leadership plays important and favorable role for employee motivation and organizational performance in the government primary schools of the taluka Khairpur. It is proposed that, educational establishments in Sindh and Pakistan in general, should implement the leadership style suited to them and in the best manner befitting to meet their objectives. In that case transformational leadership offers the best alternative to achieve the purpose of ensuring employee motivation and organizational performance in government primary schools across all provinces at the taluka level such as Khairpur in Pakistan.