TY  - BOOK
AU  - Aghaulor,Chukwuka Glorious
AU  - Atan,Tarık
TI  - THE IMPACT OF LEADERSHIP STYLES ON ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATION
PY  - 2022///
KW  - Banks and banking
KW  - Dissertations, Academic
KW  - Leadership
N1  - Thesis (MBA) - Cyprus International University. Institute of Graduate Studies and Research Business Administration Department; Includes bibliography (sheets 40-42)
N2  - ABSTRACT
Leadership is one of the primary factors of organizational innovation and plays a 
significant role in influencing the degree of support committed to innovation in a 
company. This research aims to investigate the impact of leadership style on the 
organizational innovation of commercials banks in Nigeria. Quantitative data is the 
primary focus of the study, collected from managers in five commercial banks in 
Nigeria. This study was undertaken to investigate the hypothesized links between OI 
and leadership style which includes transformational, transactional, participative and 
Laissez-faire leadership using Statistics Program for the Social Sciences (SPSS) and 
the Analysis of Moment Structure (AMOS) mathematical software to analyze the data.
Through the data of 205 managers, findings in this study showed that transformational 
and transactional leadership styles is positively related to organizational innovation. 
Also, indicating that participative and Laissez-faire leadership styles of managers has 
no significant or positive impact on organizational innovation in the banking industry. 
The findings in this study showed that quality, productive and innovation performance 
in the Nigerian banking industry may be attained through transformative and 
transactional leadership orientations which inspires employee creativity and 
dedication to organizational innovation.
Keyword: Banking Industry, Laissez-faire leadership, Leadership Style, Participative 
Leadership, Transformational Leadership, Transactional Leadership
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