EFFECT OF LEADERSHIP STYLE ON WORKERS COMMITMENT TO JOB (A CASE STUDY OF ACCESS BANK PLC, ALIMOSHO LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF LAGOS, NIGERIA)

It is widely acknowledged that leadership plays a critical factor in the success or failure of any organization. This is why every manager must possess leadership style that contributes to the effectiveness and efficiency of an organization. It is against this background that the behavior of the manager and supervisors as perceived by employees is inimical to favourable disposition to work. This perception has the potential of encouraging or discouraging employees to contribute to the success of an organization. The study was to examine the dimension of leadership style in workers' commitment with particular reference to Access Bank Plc., located in the vicinity of Alimosho Local Government Area of Lagos States. The theories adopted for this study are the leader-member exchange theory, path-goal theory and the trait theory. The three theories tend to overlap in some ways but each of them provided a unique perspective in explaining leadership style and workers' commitment. The study adopted the stratified and sampling technique and simple random of one hundred and eighteen (118) respondents and questionnaires were administered to them. The data collected were analyzed with use of descriptive statistics in which frequency counts and percentages were used. The finding of the results revealed that the leadership style practiced in Access Bank Plc is very effective. It also revealed that leadership style does influence employees' desire to remain in Access bank Plc. In the same vein, it revealed that leadership style also influences an employee 's willingness to the bank. It also revealed that leadership style does influence employees ' desire to put in extra effort for the good of the bank. In conclusion, it was deduced that leadership style does influence worker's commitment and appropriately recommended that observation tests, interviews as well as periodic meetings should be put in place as a mechanism in other to determine the impact of leadership style in organizations as this will help to assist in determining their leadership styles for effectiveness among others. Since leadership plays a very vital role in any organization, it should then be noted that it must be put in the right direction in order to experience progress. The success or otherwise of every organization also lies in the kinds of leadership.