Leadership Styles and Employee Wellbeing in Federal Capital Territory Internal Revenue Service

Abstract

This study investigated the impact of leadership styles on employee wellbeing in FCTIRS. The study specific examined the impact of transformational leadership style, transactional leadership style and authoritative leadership style on employee emotional wellbeing in FCTIRS. The study employed a cross-sectional survey research. The population of this study is 758 staff of FCTIRS. A sample of one hundred and fifty (150) staff of FCTIRS was taken. However, one hundred and twenty (120) copies of the questionnaire were validly completed. The study utilised structured survey questionnaire as data collection instrument. Data collected were descriptively analysed while multivariate regression analysis was used to establish relationship among leadership styles and employee emotional wellbeing. All tests were performed at a 5% level of significance using SPSS software. The study found that transformational leadership style has a positive and significant relationship with employee emotional wellbeing. The results also indicated that transactional leadership style and authoritative leadership style do not have any statistically significant relationship with employee emotional wellbeing. It is recommended that FCTIRS and other related organisations should invest in training programmes that would boost the transformational leadership skills among managers and supervisors to enhance the wellbeing of organizational members.