Abstract:
The study investigated the relationship between managerial leadership styles and employee productivity of Oil and Gas Firms in Rivers State, as it measured employee productivity in terms of job quality, prompt service delivery and daily output quantity. Cross sectional explanatory survey research design was adopted for the study. The population of the study comprised of 2100 employees from 101 oil and gas firms operating in Rivers State. From the Krejcie & Morgan 1970 table, the study sample became 327. 327 copies of the questionnaire were distributed to the targeted respondents and 311 copies of the questionnaire filled were correctly filled. Spearman's Rank Order Correlation Coefficient via the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 20.0 was used to carry out the test of hypotheses. The Spearman's (rho) correlation was used to analyze the relationship between independent and dependent variables at P < 0.05 (two-tailed test). The study revealed that there is a very significant positive relationship between managerial leadership styles and employee productivity in terms of job quality, prompt service delivery and daily output quantity. The study concluded that the style of leadership adopted by management determines to a very large extent the improvement or decline in the productivity of employees, especially in terms of job quality, prompt service delivery and daily output quantity. The study, among others, recommended that organizations should adopt visionary leadership style where managers are optimistic and persistent, in order to encourage employees towards delivering quality jobs on time.
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