Analysis of the Influence of Leadership Styles of Chief Executives to Organizational Performance of Local Organization in Thailand (A Case Study of Transformational, Transactional and Laissez-Faire Styles of Leadership in Pattaya City, Laemchabang City Municipality and Chonburi Provincial Organization)
Year: 2015
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Organizational achievement is an ability of the leader to influence others to do the right things. It is called leadership. There are many leadership theories that have been written but there is no one theory that works best in a given situation because organizations have different environments and cultures, especially the public sector. This study would encourage new empirical findings to public administration. The purposes of this study are to analyze and to examine the influence of transformational, transactional and laissez-faire leadership styles of the chief executives to organizational performance in case of Thai local organizations. They are Pattaya City, Laemchabang City Municipality, and Chonburi Provincial Organization. Self-administered surveys distributed to a randomly selected sample within the three local organizations. Participants consisted of 820 respondents who had returned the questionnaires from 953 invitations. The results demonstrated that transformational, transactional and laissez-faire leadership styles have a significant and positive influence to the organizational performance. The findings revealed individual consideration leadership style in transformational exhibited in two locations, while others displayed only one location. Contingent reward and management by exception-active in transactional leadership style and laissez-faire leadership style also indicate independent influence to the organizational performance but there is no leadership style overlaps. Therefore, it is concluded the leadership styles of the organizational achievement are the best from regression equation. Those are charisma, inspiration motivation and intellectual stimulation in transformational leadership, contingent reward and management by exception-active in transactional leadership and laissez-faire leadership style.
Language: English
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W213476267