ABSTRACT

ORGANIZATIONS ARE SET UP TO ACCOMPLISH SET GOALS AND OBJECTIVE. PEOPLE THEREFORE GET TOGETHER IN AN ORGANIZATION OR THE ATTACHMENT OF SPECIFIC GOALS. THEIR PERSONAL GOALS AS WELL AS THE GOALS OF THE ORGANIZATION IF THEY ARE SUFFICIENTLY MOTIVATED. THIS LEADERSHIP BECOMES AN ESSENTIAL FACTOR TOWARDS ACCOMPLISHING THESE TASKS. THIS STUDY IS THEREFORE CONCERNED WITH THE EVALUATION OF LEADERSHIP STYLES AND ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCES IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR. THE SCOPE OF THE STUDY IS TO ANALYZE VARIOUS LEADERSHIP STYLE AND MOTIVATIONAL THEORIES AND THE THINGS THAT GENERALLY AFFECTS THE WORKERS IN AFFECT ON ORGANIZATION PERFORMANCE. BASED ON THIS THE STUDY TRIES TO IDENTIFY THE LEADERSHIP STYLE COMMON IN THE PRIVATE SECTORS IN ABIA STATE AND TO SUGGEST THE STY LE THAT WILL BE MORE EFFECTIVE IN RUNNING PRIVATE ORGANIZATION. THIS RESEARCH DISCUSSED ON THE METHODOLOGY BY WHICH THE DATA CONTAINED IN THE RESEARCH WERE COLLECTED. THE SOURCES OF DATA AND THE METHOD OF ANALYZING PRIMARY DATA SUCH AS QUESTIONNAIRES PERSONAL INTERVIEWS AND OBSERVATIONS WERE APPLIED. ALSO SECONDARY DATA SUCH TEXTBOOK JOURNALS NOTES AND OTHER RELEVANT LITERATURES WERE CONSULTED. SIMPLE PERCENTAGE METHOD WAS USED IN ANALYZING THE DATA COLLECTED. CHAPTER FOUR ANALYZED AND INTERPRETED THE RESPONSES OF THE RESPONDENTS BY USING THE TABULAR FORM FOR EASY UNDERSTANDING THE ANALYSIS THE LEADER/MANAGER WHO DESIRED EFFECTIVE PERFORMANCE FROM HIS SUBORDINATES SHOULD BUILD INTO INDUCING EMPLOYEES TO CONTRIBUTE MEANINGFULLY AND EFFECTIVELY TO SET ORGANIZATIONAL OBJECTIVES.