ABSTRACT

In every establishment, the employees' performance is usually influenced by one or two factors which include the firms' leadership style or organizational performance. The research was on impact of leadership and organizational behavior on employee performance. The study tried to ascertain the relationship between leadership style and employees commitment to work, establish a relationship between organizational employees behavior and employees commitment to work andfinally to ascertain the relationship between leadership style and organizational behavior. These were the specific objectives which constituted the research question. A case study survey design was adopted where Unilever Pic was adopted as case study. A structured questionnaire was distributed to a sample of61 selectedfrom different staff category of the firm. In addition, all distributed questionnaire were retrieved and analyzed using simple statistical tables and mean marks. The simple regression was used for test of hypotheses. The hypotheses showed that significant relationship between leadership style and employees' behavior, there is a significant relationship between organizational behavior (employee and leadership) and the commitment of employees of business organizations and finally that there is a significant relationship between leadership style and the organizations employees behavior. Thus, this work concluded that the leadership style obtainable in an organization influences the employees' performance, that the leadership style also determines leadership behavior as well as the behavior ofemployees which in turn effects on the performance ofthe employee and organization in general. The work recommended that the management team should always have the welfare ofthe workers at heart