A Study on Leadership Style and its Impact of Organizational Performance

Abstract
The present study aims to investigate the impact of leadership style on organizational performance. This research also studies the leadership styles of autocratic, bureaucratic, charismatic, democratic, Laissez-faire, transactional, and transformational leadership styles. The researchers have taken the transformational leadership style on the effectiveness of organizational performance and so on. This study has followed the questionnaire methods for collecting the information from the respondents. This research adopted the statistical tools mean, percentage and correlation used for the analysis of data. Finally, this research concludes that there is a positive relationship between transformational leadership style and effective organizational performance in the organizations.
Keywords: Autocratic, Bureaucratic, Democratic, Transformational leadership styles and organizational performance.

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