Leadership StylesAdopted By Municipal and District Assemblies: A Case of the Builsa District Assembly
Journal Title: Saudi Journal of Business and Management Studies - Year 2018, Vol 3, Issue 5
Abstract
Abstract:ThisresearchwascarriedouttoexaminetheleadershipstylesusedbytheDistrictandMunicipal Assemblies(MMDA‟s)intheUpperEastRegionofGhanatoimplementtheirprogrammesand projectstothebenefitofthepeople.TheBuilsaDistrictAssemblywasusedasacasestudy. Theobjectivesofthestudy weretofindouttheextenttowhichtherespondentsunderstoodthe meaningof leadership,thetypesof leadershipstylesexhibited,andthe relationshipthatexists betweenemployeesandmanagement. Structuredquestionnaire wasthemaintoolused for collectingdata.QuestionnairesforstaffandleadersoftheAssemblywererandomlydistributed tosolicittheirviews.The StatisticalPackage forthe Social Sciences(SPSS)version16.0was methodusedtoanalysethedatacollected.One majorfindingwasthatleadershipstylesadopted bytheMMDA‟shavebeengenerallyviewedasuncompromisinganditistherefore,significant thatleadersadoptmuchmore tolerablestylesofleadingtheirsubordinateswhichwould encouragebetterunderstandingofleadershipstyles by theirworkers.Anumberof recommendationshave beenmade basedonmajor findingsofthe study.These include;the need for improvedfreeflow of communication,transparency andthe needforleaderstobepromptin handling issues and challenges. Keywords:Leadership,Leadership Styles, District Assemblies, Management.
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Osman Chilala
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