An Empirical Study on Different Leadership Styles of Business University Heads & Its Influence on Academic Staffs Productivity

The purpose of this study was to determine the impact of leadership style on faculty's performance. This study looked at how different leadership philosophies affected how well employees performed at work in a few private universities in Vadodara. Universities require leaders that can adapt to diverse scenarios and have a variety of leadership styles that work in any context and at any given time if they want their employees to achieve at their highest level. All academic and non-academic workers from approximately five private universities in Vadodara were considered for the study. Using the purposive sampling method, five private universities were chosen.100 respondents were chosen by random selection method, with 20 respondents (ten academic and ten non-academic faculty) were considered for this research work. Demographic descriptive analyses were used to assess the data, and Pearson correlation are used to test the three hypotheses that were assumed for this study. At significance levels of 0.01 and 0.05, each hypothesis is evaluated. Regression analysis was conducted to analyze the data using SPSS statistical tool. Democratic leadership, Autocratic leadership and Instructional leadership styles are some of the leadership styles which are studied in this paper. The result shows that democratic and instructional leadership style has positive and significant impact on employee's performance. However, we could find that autocratic leadership style does have positive or much impact on employee's performance. As a result, from this study leaders with great knowledge & flexible attitude have a greater impact on the performance of their team members.