The Impact of Leadership Style on Employee’s Performance-An Analysis on the Effect of Leadership Style on Staff Retention: Case Study, Rokel Commercial Bank, Sierra Leone

Most scholars emphasize the transformational leadership style while acknowledging the importance of transactional leadership style. The study was guided by four objectives including: 1) To determine the effect of autocratic leadership style on employee's job performance. 2) To ascertain the effect of the leadership style adopted by the bank managers on employee performance. 3) To examine the impact of laissez faire leadership style on employee job performance. 4) To evaluate how RC Bank S/L's leadership style affects workers' performance A total of 70 questionnaires were completed and useful for analysis out of 110 questionnaires that were issued. This represented a response rate of 70% and a non-response rate of 40%. The non-response rate was attributed to refusal to respond by respondents because of their busy schedules at work and other related issues within the working environment. Based on the findings obtained and the conclusion drawn in addressing the problems identified, the researcher forwarded the following recommendations as a possible solution to be considered by respected body. According to the ways the leaders enhances his or her employee's performance few of the respondents shows that leaders use punishment, in this situation even though the majority of the employee are treated and encouraged in a good manner for minority also, it is recommended not to react through punishment to any of the workers, rather than it is preferable to adopt other positive mechanism like training to motivate them and built their capacity to do the assigned jobs as per the requirements.