ACHIEVING ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE THROUGH TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP APPROACH: A STUDY OF SELECTED PUBLIC SECTOR ORGANIZATIONS

Authors

  • Allison Patricia Ukachi Department of Business Management, Godfrey Okoye University, Enugu State, Nigeria
  • Anugwu Clara Chika Department of Entrepreneurship Studies, Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka, Anambra State, Nigeria
  • Okoli, Ifeanyi Emmanuel Nuel Department of Entrepreneurship Studies, Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka, Anambra State, Nigeria

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.51594/ijmer.v3i8.251

Abstract

The aim of this study was to investigate ways of achieving organizational performance through transformational leadership approach, a study of selected public sector organizations in Anambra State Nigeria. The survey research design was used for this study. The study population was three thousand four hundred and thirty six staff (3436) while the sample size was three hundred and forty five (345) arrived at using Krejcie and Morgan (1970) formula. Bowley’s Population Allocation Formula (1964) was used in arriving at the number of questionnaire allocated to each sampled organization because of the differences in the number of employees. Questionnaire was used for data collection. The reliability of the questionnaire was tested by using Cronbach's alpha to access the internal consistency of the items. The study employed expert judgment approach to access content validity. Pearson’s product moment correlation technique was adopted to analyze the data at 0.05 level of significance. The findings indicate that transformational leadership and organizational performance in the selected public sector organizations had a strong positive and significant correlation.

Keywords: Transformational Leadership, Public Sector Organization, Organizational Performance, Social Exchange Theory.

Published

2021-09-23

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