Managerial styles and their impact on employee productivity

¶ … managers and the employees play an important role. In the present day, organizations incessantly experience and go through rapid technological changes, decreasing product life cycles, globalization, international global economic setting and also the extensive accessibility to information. As a result, in order for these organizations to continue surviving and being relevant in the market, style of management becomes a significant element in the success of the organization. The role of a manager as a leader within an organization can result in different styles of management chosen. The different styles selected by the managers have an influence on the behavior patterns within the organization, which in turn impacts the morale and motivation of the employee. In the end, the managerial style influences the level of satisfaction of the employee, which directly influences the level of productivity. According to Olmedo-Cifuentes and Martinez-Leon, Managers utilizing the fitting style of leadership can increase employee job satisfaction, productivity and commitment towards the organization in the long run (Olmedo-Cifuentes and Martinez-Leon,). Therefore, style of management, strategies employed, attitudes demanded and the culture nurtured are all elements that govern and largely impact the level of success of the organization. In essence, managerial styles can act as a form of security for the organization.

Statement of the Problem

One of the most significant issues that result in the development and advancement within an organization as well as their managers is the styles of management. There are different managerial styles, which include authoritarian style of management, participative managerial style, benevolent authoritarian as well as consulting. These different styles of management can have an impact on the productivity and efficiency within the organization. In particular, in the present day, productivity plays a significant role in advancing organization. For this reason, plenty of attention and emphasis is placed on the managers with regard to the level of concentration and consideration they have on their agents. This is owing to the fact that this can instigate increased productivity, effectiveness, and efficiency of their labor force.

In the present day, contemporary organizations are designated by incessantly changing dynamics such as the intricacy of personalization, and rivaling requirements of individuals rather than methods dependence upon technology and also the increase of the understanding economy amongst a number of other aspects. Taking this into consideration, without doubt, this is the reason why managerial styles become a vital element towards not only the success, but also the survival of the organization in the present compared to the past. In the present, the mission for proper organization managerial style encompasses different aspects such as educating, encouraging, strengthening and enabling the followers or workforces to become better. The essence of management and leadership in contemporary organizations these days is the fact that leadership ought to be for the benefit of the fans and under no circumstances constantly for that enhancement from the leaders (Karimi et al., ).

Intended Audience

The applied research project's intended audience includes managers of different organizations across different business sectors. This research is critical to organizations and their management team as it explores the existing relationship between the styles of management and the level of productivity from the work force. It is imperative to take note that this does not just encompass organizations such as those in the manufacturing and business industries alone. It also includes organizations such as hospitals and schools with the latter being assessed in the productivity of the teachers and the students as well. In particular, organizations as a whole are intended audiences as the paper offers a framework in which the entities can assess to improve their general level of productivity.

Value to the Audience

Method

Meta-analysis is an approach to research that focuses on analyzing a large quantity of already-performed analyses on a given subject, field or area of research (Swanson, Holton, 2005). It involves identifying, locating, reading, reviewing, assessing and categorizing the findings of various works of literature on the subject that is being analyzed. Thus, a combination of scholarly journals and databases will typically be utilized. This method will be applied for this study on management as a way of analyzing what previous research has found in the relationship between styles of management in diverse sectors and the effects of those styles on the workplace organizations. Because this stud includes such a wide variety of possibilities, it is important to narrow the focus to two or three particular styles of leadership/management and to analyze their impact on the workplace environment. This approach will examine three styles: participative managerial style, benevolent authoritarian, and autocratic managerial style.

While qualitative research is good for providing a deeper level of understanding that is based on a more subjective reading of events, a meta-analysis is helpful for procuring a quantitative reading of findings. This assessment will therefore provide the reader with a better understanding of how the relationship works between management styles and worker productivity.

The relevant literature will be located by using keywords such as "autocratic managerial style," "participative managerial style," "benevolent authoritarian" and any combination of these phrases with the following keywords: "organizational commitment," "worker productivity," "employee satisfaction," and "organizational success." These searches produced over 100 articles/studies that were relevant to this meta-analysis. Looking in multiple databases was necessary in order to widen the scope of the search (Lawler, Morhman, 2011).

Coding the findings of this meta-analysis depends upon employing the correct coding strategy. The key is to avoid bias. Here, the strategy employed included collating the empirical evidence that was most relevant to the focus of the effect of managerial style on the variables indicated above in the keyword search terms and identifying the key characteristics that appear in the results. The key here was to remove bias from the overall assessment. For this study, a standardized mean difference (SMD) estimation was utilized in order to provide a concept of weighting to the net value of the studies.

The process of determining whether a fixed- or random-effects model would be used in order to display the different effects was settled by the expectation that the observable outcomes would vary according to study. That is to say, it was expected that the three different styles of management would have different impacts on different organizations. Understanding the relationship between style, workplace behavior and organization type was important to providing this meta-analysis. Thus, it was determined that a random-effects model would be most applicable for this study because it was expected that effects will be distributed over a certain range of results.

The aim here was to examine and identify sources of heterogeneity among the three management styles and the different variables discussed above. By properly categorizing and understanding the diversity of sources of effects among the manager-worker relationship (the cause-and-effect relationship, in other words), an optimum meta-analysis was conducted.

Results are generated and displayed in flow-diagrams, which provide an illustration of how data/information is connected, and pooled-effect graphs, which depict a graphic assessment of cumulative chronological events in terms of the relation between managerial style and workplace behavior within the different organization types.

Conclusion

Managerial styles have come to be one of the most important elements that influence the level of success for contemporary organizations. There are different styles of management such as autocratic, participative and benevolent styles. The following proposed applied research project will analyze the relationship that exists between the style of management used within an organization and the level of productivity and efficiency that comes about. The applied research project will be advancing the investigation of the organizational problem by evaluating the different managerial styles that can be utilized within the organization to improve and increase the level of productivity and efficiency. This will enable organizations to tackle the problem of harmony between the managerial style and the productivity of the employees within the organization (Karimi et al., ).

The next steps of the research process will include the literature review. The section will evaluate the preceding researches that have analyzed the impact of managerial styles within the organization across different industries. The subsequent phase will include the methodology section, which will detail the way I plan to tackle the research problem. The overall design of the project will take a quantitative methodology approach. The independent variable will be the style of management while the dependent variables will include the level of productivity of the employees and also the level of efficiency. Thereafter, there will be the data collection procedures. The method of data collection used will be questionnaires handed to the population. The sampling unit will include employees and managers from six different organizations in different industries. This method will be employed to ascertain that the research encompasses the whole organization and not biased on one particular sector. Thereafter, there will be the data analysis section, which will use regression analysis through Excel and SPSS statistical analysis programs.