EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP STYLE ON JOB PERFORMANCE IN AN ORGANIZATION. CASE STUDY COLLEGE OF EDUCATION, EKIADOLOR-BENIN (COLBEN)
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
The issue and concept of a leader and leadership has formed the buck of major discourses today, whether the discourse is centred on politics or business, people talk of either a good leader or a bad leader but usually the followership and other circumstantial factors such as the environment are down played.
Our lives are in fact affected by the sort of leader we have, at every given point in time irrespective of the level. Leadership is of vital importance, as long as a group exists’. Its existence dates back to when the family system began to exist. The family system from research is the oldest social system that has a form of leadership. Informally therefore, leadership starts from the family and formally extends to the organization, private and public alike whether formal or informal, leadership has a vital role to play; success or failure in the achievement of the aims and objectives of any organization. The term leader connotes different things for different persons, but basically, however, it mainly portrays an image of power and action, reflecting one person directing or influencing others. When a leader possess the good qualities expected of him, adopts the leadership styles that will lead to the accomplishment of the aims and objectives of his organization, the issue of effectiveness of such a leader and the organization then comes in. However, it has been argued that the effectiveness of a leadership has to do with the authoritative allocation of power within a system i.e. who gets what, when and how. Leadership at any level, is set to answer some questions of distribution of knowledge, information amongst it’s followers in different department.
