LEADERSHIP QUALITY AND ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE IN UGANDAN UNIVERSITIES : A COMPERATIVE STUDY OF GULU UNIVERSITY AND UGANDA MARTYRS UNIVERSITY NKOZI .

Abstract

The study set out to comparatively Analyse how leadership quality influence performance in Ugandan Universities. Two Universities were chosen, one was a public University, and another one was a private University. Specifically, the study sought to examine the quality and nature of leadership in Gulu University and Uganda martyrs University, explore the effect of employee commitment in the performance of Gulu and Uganda Martyrs Universities/ and analyze the organizational culture in Gulu and Uganda Martyrs Universities and how they affect performance in these Universities. The design was majorly quantitative in nature, supported by cross sectional design correlation survey design was used to help capture the extend of relations and explanatory to the model. Findings indicate that transactional leadership and transformational leadership were all practiced in the two Universities. Gulu University had the highest performance in transactional leadership as compared to those of Uganda Martyrs university. Employees were committed to their institutions; employees approved the provisions in organizational culture and the two institutions were relatively performing well on certain indicators. We recommend that institutions should listen to all its beneficiaries, and they should be less bureaucratic, appreciate their employees career advancements. Supervisors should build trust with their subordinates and should make personal sacrifices to their supervisors for the benefits of the institutions and supervisors should find out what their employees want and try to get them. If institutions are to improve on their performance, they should encourage the employees to be part of their department's success and failures, make employees be emotionally attached to their organizations and make them employees like the organizations such that it becomes difficult for them to leave their organization.

Description

Includes illustrations

Keywords

Citation