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Leadership style has immense impact on employees to perform, grow and lead to positive attitude towards achieving organizational goals. The study explores the influence of different leadership style on employee performances. The objective is to review past literatures to understand that how different style such as autocratic, democratic, transformational, transactional, and participative approach influence worker execution. Evidences from literature shows that transformational leadership approach have more beneficial outcome on worker execution than transactional where concentrate is on upper hands. The autocratic approach is considered as more appropriate style when workers are less informed and unaware regarding job description; if employees continuously interfere or misuse their power, or when single person are accountable for decision making process. The democratic style is appropriate when a innovative problem solving solutions are demanded by organization or conducting meeting for departments working improvement and for achieving tasks and goals. In the end, the participative style is applicable when organization has experienced and talented team members for innovative and creative work

Keywords; Leadership Style, Democratic, Autocratic, Participative, Transformational, Transactional

1.Introduction

The business situations are changing drastically as a consequence of societal behaviour. Globalization, consumer awareness, deregulation of corporate sector, and competition are creating new behaviour and challenges for organization in order to toll organization performance. However, the quality of leadership is the most essential elements of vital success. So, there is a fundamental role of leadership styles in improving employee performance, motivation and job assurance.

One of the fundamental theory of leadership "Great Man" clearly states that a leader has a very significant role on the organization's success (Shaukat et al., 2012). Even, leadership is one of the most widely discussed aspect of organizational behaviour and all group and team need a leader to direct them and guide them in order to find their respective goals (Kuchler, 2008); (Jones, George, & Hill, 2002). Therefore, as a consequence of rising concern in the leadership, researchers have started to evaluate the conceivable worth of leadership style in order to forecast leader's behaviour. Rollinson et. al (2001) Leadership is a trait which is extremely cherished in most of the organizations and this has become a major cause that is widely being investigated and discussed in organizational behaviour and performance. (Adair 2003). The ability...

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