Influence of Leadership Approach on Performance of building construction industries in south-east of Nigeria

K.C. Okolie & Ezenwata Chidozie Jovita

Department  of Building, Faculty of Environmental science Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka, Nigeria

Abstract

The study investigated the influence of leadership approach on performance of building construction industries in south-east of Nigeria. It adopted descriptive research design. One research question and hypothesis guided the study. The population for this study consisted of 2890; 945 contractors and 1945 employees from the 290 registered building construction firms handling public buildings within South-East, Nigeria. A sample size of 351; 103 contractors and 248 employees were used for the study. The instrument for data collection for this study was a structured questionnaire. The face and content validity of the instrument was  established using the opinions of three experts from the Department of Building, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, NnamdiAzikiwe University, Awka. The reliability of the instrument was established using Cronbach alpha which yielded a reliability coefficient of 0.88. The findings of this study revealed that the adoption of democratic and transformational leadership styles will enhance the performance of building construction projects in South East Nigeria. Thus, a combination of democratic and transformational leadership styles are the most appropriate leadership styles for improving organizational performance of  construction industries. It recommended among others that managers of building construction industries in South-East of Nigeria should apply a combination of democratic and transformational leadership styles so as to continuously improve on their organizational performance and managers of construction industries should adopt leadership styles that are in tandem with the set goals, cultural values and organizational peculiarities of their firms as there is no one best leadership style.

Keywords

building construction industries; performance; leadership styles.

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