dc.contributor.author | Akello, L Stephen | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-09-08T07:23:50Z | |
dc.date.available | 2015-09-08T07:23:50Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2015 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11295/90732 | |
dc.description | Master of Education in Corporate Governance | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of managers’ leadership
styles on employees’ access to their rights in education based NGOs in Busia District.
Busia was chosen because there exist rampant cases of labor rights violations. The
study was guided by four research objectives. The objectives sought information on
the extent to which managers’ leadership styles of democratic, autocratic, laissez-faire
and charismatic influence employees’ access to their rights. The literature review
relevant to this study laid the background for the study. The study employed
descriptive research design. The target population comprised of 10 managers and 360
employees. The sample size was therefore 10 managers and 160 employees totaling to
170 respondents. Data was collected using questionnaires and interviews. Data were
analyzed by use of descriptive statistics. From the study findings the most popular
leadership style used by managers was democratic although employees also indicated
that their managers used autocratic style. Democratic and charismatic leadership
styles were found to enable higher percentage of employees’ access their rights.
While autocratic leadership style was found to be retrogressive and largely did not
enable employees access their rights. The study concluded that whilst managers’
leadership styles influenced employees’ access to their rights, the leadership styles
played insignificant role in enabling employees form and join trade unions. This right
was found to be influenced by other factors such as organizational policies and
employment contracts. The study recommended that managers leadership skills need
to be enhanced through frequent training to be able to handle better the human
resource in their organizations and that managers of education based NGOs should
ensure that organizations keep abreast with current regulations as well as any
subsequent amendments or repeals so as to cater for employees rights adequately. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | University of Nairobi | en_US |
dc.title | Influence of managers’ leadership styles on employees’ access to their rights in education based non governmental organizations in Busia District, Kenya | en_US |
dc.type.material | en_US | en_US |