Leadership style and employee engagement in selected deposit money banks in Bauchi State

Abstract

This study examined the relationship between Leadership Style and Employee Engagement of selected Deposit Money Banks in Bauchi State. The study adopted a cross sectional design and the population of the study comprised management and staff of selected deposit money banks in Bauchi state totaling 286. The sample size was one hundred and six nine (169). After data cleaning, only data of 153 respondents were finally used for data analysis. SPSS 23.0 was used to run descriptive statistics and Spearman’s rank correlation used for data analysis and hypothesis testing. Empirical results confirm that there is a positive significant relationship between leadership styles and employee engagement. The study concluded that leadership styles has a positive and significant relationship with employee engagement (employee belief, employee feelings and organization citizenship behavior). The study recommended that there is a need to have an entrenched training program within the organization aim at building on employee beliefs about the organization and their work conditions from within the organization. This will ensure that employees are gradually molded and have a robust, comprehensive understanding of the organization. Managers should use the most appropriate and effective leadership style that facilitates collective responsibility and consultative decision making with all stakeholders within the organization. They should also involve the managers at all levels in their administration which would enhance participative leadership and hence better productivity and performance.