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    Leadership style and its impact on employee performance
    (2018) Chua, J.; Basit, Abdul; Hassan, Zubair
    The aim of this study was to determine the impact of leadership style on employee’s performance. A causal research design was used to carry out this research. Middle management employees ‘from services sector at different of location in Klang Valley was used. To do this, respondents from a hearing aid company was chosen. Each respondent should have worked more than 5 years in the field. A Likert scale from 1-5 was used to collect data, where the questionnaire was tested for its face, content and construct validity along with reliability of the construct. A sample size of two hundred and fifty (250) respondents was used using non-probability convenient sampling method. Regression analysis was conducted to analyses the data using SPSS 21. The result shows that autocratic and democratic leadership style has positive and significant impact on employee performance. However we found that laissez-fair leadership style have no significant influence on employee performance. This suggests that leaders with extremely distinguished styles have more influences on employee performance as it is more evident throughout their interaction with the immediate supervisor. Therefore, leaders could adopt innovative strategies using suitable leadership style in order to achieve work performance at the very best level as well as to gain the long-term success. Therefore we concluded that the autocratic leadership is useful in the short term and democratic leadership style is useful in all time horizons to improve employee performance.