The Role of Leadership Styles in Enhancing Employee Productivity and Organizational Success in Nigeria

This conceptual manuscript examines the leadership practices that leads to employees’ performance and organizational effectiveness in Nigerian context. The study begins by addressing the critical challenge faced by Nigerian businesses: to what extent leadership impacts organizational results, specifically at a time of increased competition and environment dynamism. The purpose of the research is therefore to analyze the effects of the three leadership patterns, namely; transformational, transactional and servant leadership, on the motivation and performance of employees, as well as the overall organizational productivity. The research problem aims at comparing the different leadership strategies and level of productivity in organizations in Nigeria. A secondary research approach is used whereby primary data is derived from journals, books, newspapers, and historical documents by sorting out existing information on leadership styles. Key discoveries indicate the extent to which leadership approaches impact employee perceptions and behaviors, in line with work outcomes, creativity, efficiency, and commitment, driven by transformational leadership, control and clarification of tasks resulting from transactional leadership, and organizational trust and employee loyalty from servant leadership. In light of the discussed findings, the study makes suggestions to Organizations to implement a mixed style of leadership, whereby use a number of leadership styles in order to get the best result from the employees and organization. The chief sources of the limitations include the following: The study has largely depended on secondary information, which restricts the range of results.