AN ASSESSMENT OF THE IMPACT OF LEADERSHIP STYLE ON THE PERFORMANCE OF STAFF IN ADAMAWA STATE POLYTECNIC YOLA

An assessment of the impact of leadership style on the performance of staff in Federal Polytechnic Mubi. The objective of this research include, to find out the problem leaders face in an organization, to investigate the influence of democratic leadership style on staff performance in an organization especially in Federal Polytechnic Mubi Adamawa State. The collection of data the method they were used, are primary and secondary data and data were generated source from questionnaire and interview the population of the study were 6098 which 250 were used by the researcher for the data presentation and analysis. The findings are as follows, the study confirmed that, democratic leadership style has more effect on staff performance in an organization. In conclusion democratic leadership style is seen to have more effect or influence on staff performance in an organization because staff seems to perform actively when they know that they are involved in the daily running of the organization activities they are involve in the decision making of the organization. The research recommend that the organization should employ the democratic style of leadership, this is because the organization cannot work except with staff in it and the productivity of a staff strongly depend on how employee is been treated in an organization.