Effect of Leadership Style on Employee Performance among the Employees of Information Technology in Chennai

Abstract

The most important resources of an organization are the human resources as they have got a strategic role to play for the organizational success. The human resources also have got the potential to affect the organizational efficiency and effectiveness and hence the human resources have to managed for obtaining, maintaining and developing effective and efficient employees to achieve the goals of the organization. The objectives and goals of the organization can be accomplished only when there is an optimum performance exhibited by the human resources. For this purpose, there is a need for a leadership style to be followed within the organization for influencing, guiding and assessing every employee in the entity. The current study has been carried out to examine the impact of leadership style over the employee performance. The respondents of the study are Information Technology employees who have been selected through convenience sampling technique. The sample size of the study is 100 and the tool used for data collection is questionnaire. The analysis of the data has been done with the help of Regression. Results of analysis reveal that there is positive relationship between leadership style and employee performance.