The Impact of Leadership Style on the Human Resources Efficiency in the Organization

Abstract

This study aims at investigating the impact of leadership style on the human resources efficiency in the organization. This study is applied in terms of objective and has the survey type according to data collection, and it is also the descriptive-analytical in terms of data analysis. The statistical population of this study consists of all managers and senior experts in National Iranian Oil Company and 120 subjects are selected as the sample size through Cochran formula due to the uncertain and high population size. The researcher-made questionnaire is utilized for evaluating the relationship between the research variables, thus it is applied for measuring Fiedler's leadership style with three indices of relationship-oriented, task-oriented and relationship-task oriented leadership styles as well as the human resources efficiency with three indices of learning and development, attraction and preservation of human resources. According to the obtained results, the leadership style has an impact of 94% on the human resources attraction, 71% on human resources learning and development, and 79% on human resources preservation. Therefore, the maximum impact of leadership style is on the human resources attraction.