The impact of leadership styles on employee motivation in Tanzania. The case of the Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA).

Marango, Beatrice Chitegetse (2023) The impact of leadership styles on employee motivation in Tanzania. The case of the Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA). Masters thesis, The Open University of Tanzania.

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Abstract

A leader motivates employees through setting in place structures aimed at taking full advantage of employee’s potential, organizational resources and providing direction. Motivation of employees is a crucial leadership task, it translates employees knowledge, skills, and abilities into effort. This studyexamined the impact of leadership styles on the employee’s motivation in TRA, specifically determined the leadership styles adopted, assessed employee’s response towards the adopted leadership styles and established the link between the adopted leadership styles and employee’s motivation. The study used primary source of information and employed mixed research methods where both qualitative and quantitative research approach were used. The study revealed employees are influenced by leadership styles. The correlation coefficient has indicated there is a relationship between leadership styles and employees motivation. The regression analysis has illustrated that, democratic and transformational leadership styles has a positive relationship with employees motivation, while autocratic leadership style has negative relationship. The study recommends that transformational leadership is the most suitable form of leadership because it motivates employees to see what they are capableand inspiring them to achieve their goals which increases employee morale and retentionultimately committed to organizational objectives. Similarly, the organization can develop certain training programs for supervisorsso as to improve their skills that will definitely lead to much more productivity, that should be in concurrent with improving employees welfare. Keywords:Leadership styles; Transformational, Democratic, Autocratic, Employee Motivation

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