COLLAGE OF BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS

DEPARTEMENT OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AND DEVELOPEMENT

MANAGEMENT

TITLE: ASSESSEMENT OF THE RELATIONSHIP OF LEADERSHIP STYLE AND WORK

ENVIRONMENT (CASE OF COMMERCIAL BANK OF ETHIOPIA (in sidist kilo branch)

This senior project work is to the partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of
Bachelor in PADM

PREPARED BY: Netsanet

UGR /0947/13

ADVISOR; MULUGETA (MSc)

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

JUNE, 2024
Proposal title on: Assessment of the relationship of leadership style and work environment (case of commercial bank of Ethiopia (in
sidist kilo branch)

Table of Contents
CHAPTER 1 : INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................ 2

1.1 Back ground ..................................................................................................................... 2

1.2 STATEMENT OF PROBLEM ........................................................................................ 3

1.3 Research questions ........................................................................................................... 3

1.4 OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY ..................................................................................... 3

1.4.1 General Objective ..................................................................................................... 3

1.4.2 Specific objectives .................................................................................................... 4

1.5 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY ................................................................................. 4

1.6 THE SCOPE OF THE STUDY ....................................................................................... 4

1.7 Limitation of the study ..................................................................................................... 4

1.8 Flow chart for general work of the senior project work ................................................... 5

1.9 Organization of the senior project research work ............................................................ 6

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CHAPTER 1 : INTRODUCTION

1.1 Back ground

Leadership is the process of influencing people and providing an environment to achieve and
organizational objectives. In the process there are practices of planning, work allocation,
organizing-controlling and decision making. In the progress to the modern word business
companies’ government, organizations and public enterprises regardless of their size and nature
are facing challenges in computing for existence. (Mc Shane, 2000, 432).

In many business leadership is welded to the performance, leadership is the process of

influencing people and providing an environment for them the activities teamed the organization.
In fielder's constituency theory which suggest that leadership styles must fit or match the
situation in order to be effective is the best known, leadership is the art of motivating a group of
people to act to words achieving a goal but even more simply leadership is the inspiration
director of the action (Nelson, 1984, 431). The groups that possess the combination of
personality and skills that make others to follow his or her direction, it also involves
communicating inspiring and supervising Leadership is a winning combination of person traits
and the ability to think act like a leader, Anyone can be leader even if the only persons they are
leading is themselves (Nelson,1984).

Leadership is important for function of management which helps to maximize efficiently and to
achieve organizational goals; leadership of the organization mainly involves modeling. The
vision forming team, influencing them and aligning people to achieve set goals Leadership bears
the responsibility of inspiring people and producing meaningful changes in the organization good
leadership entails the ability to articulate a vision align the people talents and efforts of the
company’s direction and keeping them focused on set vision by motivating and persuading them
(Richard 1995,372).

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1.2 STATEMENT OF PROBLEM

Leadership is weld to performance. Effective leaders is increase their company’s bottom lines
leadership is also the art of motivating a group of people to act towards achieving a common
goal, a good leader is the one who has made a lasting impact on people who is not commanding.
Where bad leader is a person in leadership that lacks the necessary skill, ability and overall
quantities to effectively, Now a day every organization has its own objectives one of the activity
that is influencing people to corporate toward some goals is good leadership, most organization
have problems such as lack of transparency, poor performance, etc.

Work environment can involve the social interactions at the workplace, including interactions
with peers, subordinates, and managers. Generally, and within limits, employees are entitled to a
work environment that is free from harassment. A hostile work environment exists when
unwelcome behavior interferes with an employee and leader that will create bad work
environment and creates a hostile intimidating or offensive work environment.

The factors that motivate the student researcher to study is that, the workers are often
complaining about the collision occurs with their leader and them. So the researcher is trying to
investigate the relationship of leadership style and work environment the following basic
questions

1.3 Research questions

1) What is the importance of leadership style in work environment?
2) What type of leadership style does the work environment prefer?
3) Does the leadership style have a direct impact on work environment?
4) What are the problems related to leadership style that affect work environment?

1.4 OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY

1.4.1 General Objective

The overall objective of this study was assessment the relationship of leadership styles and work
environment.

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1.4.2 Specific objectives

 To assess the importance of leadership style in work environment

 To assess the leadership style have a direct impact on work environment
 To identify a preferable leadership style for a specific work environment
 To identify the problems related to leadership style that affect work environment

1.5 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY

The research significance emanates from the general objective and specific objectives.
Leadership is act of influencing and directing people in such a way that will be win their
obedience, confidence, free workplace, respect and loyal cooperation in achieving common
objectives, Leadership is an important function of management which helps to create a good
work environment to managements and employee’s to achieve organizational goals thus, The
study is helpful of knowing the influence of the leadership style on work environment and will
be explore the ways to find out how can employees work together and improve leadership
structure of the organization, the study is cornerstone for other researchers ,the student researcher
is beneficiary on getting knowledge, experience and advantage on conducting the different data
about assess the relationship of leadership styles and work environment this study and have some
the knowledge about their relationship. Also the study can be used for other organizations which
are similar by taking this study and they can check themselves with identified problem and if the
problem initiate on them they can take their corrective measure.

1.6 THE SCOPE OF THE STUDY

The study undertakes extensive study on the problem area, however, because of time and
resource constraint the study has emphasized on assessments the relationship of leadership style
and work environment. Hence all would be confined to the case in sidist kilo branch.

1.7 Limitation of the study

In spite of its significant the researcher is also bounded certain key limitations. There was
limitation in conducting the study starting from designing the proposal and research. The major
limitations are the following; Respondents was not willing to give the information about their
work environment primary data collection.

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1.8 Flow chart for general work of the senior project work

Figure 1-1: Summary of the flow chart for the senior project work

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1.9 Organization of the senior project research work

Chapter one: Highlights the introduction and justification to the current study

Chapter two: literature review on the important related works

Chapter three: Methodology of sampling and data collection strategies

Chapter four: Analysis and data interpretations

Chapter five: Discussion and conclusion

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