Impact of leadership style on employee performance in the Chinese state owned enterprise

Abstract

With the rapid development of economy in China, the economy has propelled
the development of the enterprise; especially, private companies, they are
pillar of labor market in china. Therefore, many Chinese state owned
enterprises have also been reform and renewal. Under the new organization
management model, the leadership more emphasis on employee’s
performance, Hence, the leadership styles ought to adapt to improve
employee’s performance, in this study, a quantitative method was used to
design a questionnaire. The five-point Likert scale was used to determine the
influence of leadership style on employee performance. SPSS software was
used to analyze the questionnaire. Demographic analysis, normality test,
reliability test (Cronbach s Alpha), descriptive analysis and regression
analysis were presented. the significant relationship between democratic
leadership style and employee performance, the positive relation the
insignificant relationship between autocratic leadership style and employee
performance. When the median value of democratic leadership style
corresponds to the highest value of 3.784 and the standard deviation value is
0.8124, the second highest value of laissez-faire leadership style corresponds
to 3.416 and the standard deviation value is 0.5858, and the lowest mean value
of 3.404 and standard deviation value of 0.7330 corresponds to autocratic
leadership style, indicating that autocratic leadership style is not related to
employee performance. The regression coefficient analysis shows that democracy has a significant positive effect on employee performance. the
laissez-faire leadership styles is the second, The beta value of autocratic
leadership style is -0.168, the significance value is 0.025, and the significance
value is higher than 0.01, indicating that autocratic leadership style has a
significant negative impact on employee performance. In this study will
provide an effective leadership style to improve employee performance in the
private company.