INFLUENCE OF TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP ON THE PERFORMANCE OF THE DEVOLVED SYSTEM OF GOVERNANCE IN MANDERA COUNTY, KENYA
Keywords:
Transformational Leadership, Performance of the Devolved System of Governance, Idealized Leadership, Inspirational LeadershipAbstract
In Today’s world we Transformational leaders who leads and work with teams to identify needed change, creating a vision to guide the change through inspiration, and executing the change in tandem with committed members of a group. The purpose of the study was to examine Influence of Transformational Leadership on the Performance of the Devolved System of Governance in Mandera County, Kenya. There are two research objectives that were guiding the study were to examine how idealized leadership on performance of devolved system of governance; to establish how inspirational leadership on performance of devolved system of governance; The study was based on Transformational leadership Theory, Contingency theory. The study will employ the descriptive survey research design. The study targeted 200 employees in the county. Questionnaires were used to collect the required information from the respondents. A pilot study was conducted to pre-test the reliability and validity of the instrument. Both descriptive and inferential statistics was adopted for the study. The quantitative data was analyzed by using descriptive statistics which includes frequency distribution tables and measures of central tendency (the mean), measures of variability (standard deviation) and measures of relative frequencies. The inferential statistics included a regression model which established the relationship between variables. Data was analyzed by the use of a statistical software SPSS version 23, this further depicted that the variables under study (the independent variable had a significant influence on the dependent variable). Data was presented in the form of tables and charts. From the findings mentioned earlier, it can be concluded that Inspirational motivation Idealized influence affect Governance in Mandera County Government. Many of the respondents thought there should be more leadership support on the issue of Governance in Mandera County Government For effective performance of Governance in Mandera County Government the following recommendations were made. Training on importance of transformative leadership to be continuous. There should be incentive to those who practice transformative leadership, Room for farther research are as for follow. The researcher dealt with only the above four factors that affect Governance performance there need to be more areas to be looked and relooked. There is need to use other methods of study to see whether the same result can be realized. This research was concentrated in Mandera County, there is need to have a wider research on the topic covering a wider area to compare the findings.
Key Words: Transformational Leadership, Performance of the Devolved System of Governance, Idealized Leadership, Inspirational Leadership
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