Assessment of Leadership Styles, Mission Strategies and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) through Infrastructural Development in The Foursquare Gospel Church, Nigeria 1999-2019
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Church growth largely depend on the leadership structure and potentials within the Christiana organisation. Again, leadership styles deployed by hierarchical leaders impact on the attainment of long-term Christian faith experience that also contributes to the overall living conditions and welfare of the people within a Christian organisation and on the long term promotes national productivity. Although there have been substantial completed studies that authenticated what are now considered mainstream leadership styles. However, there seems to be not many of such research on assessment of leadership styles of Christian organizational hierarchical heads in relation to Church Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) through infrastructural development. Therefore, this study assessed leadership styles and Church Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) through infrastructural development under two General Overseers of The Foursquare Gospel Church, Nigeria between 1999-2019. The study adopted descriptive survey research design and the sample involve 172 respondents who were randomly selected among the Church hierarchical leaders in the Foursquare Gospel Church, Nigeria. Self-designed and validated instruments were used to collect data for this study; namely: Leadership Styles Adoption Questionnaire (LSAQ) r=0.976; Infrastructural Development Adoption Questionnaire (IDAQ) r=0.961; and Interview Guide for Organizational Leaders (IGOL). Descriptive statistics was used for data analysis. Findings revealed that the predominant leadership styles exhibited by the two General Overseers were democratic ( = 1.66) and partially autocratic ( = 2.42) and their leadership styles impacted positively on the Church CSR through infrastructural development leading to improvements and upgrade of mission educational and institutional buildings; primary and secondary schools ( ; Foursquare hospital ( , seminary classrooms ( ), establishment of conference ( and remodeled worship centers. Other CSR infrastructural development include borehole drilling ( and provisions of vocational training facilities ( . The study concludes that Church CSR under the two General Overseers’ leadership styles substantially impacted on Infrastructural development of The Foursquare Gospel Church, Nigeria between 1999-2019. Therefore, the study recommends sustainability and enhancement of the exhibited and deployed leadership styles to further improve on the infrastructural development as CSR that will benefit the lives of the member of the Church and the larger Nigerian public. The study further recommends that Church leaders should be dynamic in the deployment of desirable leadership styles to engender continuity in Church CSR and maintenance of existing infrastructural facilities as this study established the fact that leadership style resonates with infrastructural development.
Authors: ADEJORO, Oluwagbenga Emmanuel, OTUNLA, Adekunle Olusola
Language: English
Subfield: Religious studies
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W6931047982
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