Impact of Gombe State University’s Leadership Style on Employees Performance (2004-2013)

Abstract

Organizations are set up to achieve certain goals that lead to their establishments. These organizations, whether private or public, formal or informal use leadership as a key factor in steering the affairs of the organizations to achieve their desired goals. Leadership as a way of influencing the activities of employees towards actualizing the organizational goals requires the use and adoption of appropriate leadership style. The absence of it leads to the failure of organizations in achieving their goals. However, as a result of many challenges facing university educational system in Nigeria, which include inadequate funding, failure to meet staff expectation, industrial actions and violent demonstration by students and host of other problems associated with the system, the universities are found to be lagging behind in achieving the main purpose which they were originally set up to achieved. This research thus attempts to trace the impact of leadership style on employees’ performance citing Gombe State University as a point of reference. The research design involves the use of questionnaire and online data collection. About 993 population of Gombe State University employees both academic and non-academic staff are taken. The results of the research show that, the leadership style of the then VC impacted positively on employees’ performance. On the use of modern technology usage, majority of the respondent agree that employees of Gombe State University used modern technological equipment for research maximally. Furthermore, it is however noted that, leadership style of Gombe state University from 2004-2013 has helped in developing university to a modern one, more importantly, findings show that leadership of Gombe state University from 2004-2013 facilitated discipline on employees’ performance.