An Impact of Transformational Leadership on Employees' Performance: A Case Study in Nigeria

The objective of this paper is to determine the extent to which transformational leadership has impact on staff performance in Federal College of Education, Zaria, Nigeria. Statement of the problem under study was employees' affirmation to lack of direction to the organization's transformational style of leadership and an intellectual excursion was undertaken to review related literatures on transformational leadership and performance. A survey research design was used as primary data and was sourced via questionnaire and interview which was complimented with secondary data. The analysis of data was conducted using SPSS version 20, and regression was used as tool for hypothesis testing, and it was found out that there is significant relationship between transformational leadership and staff performance in the college. The study concludes that a sound and viable leadership with individual consideration at heart, encourages innovation, and creativity, and it was recommended that management should adopt fully the transformational leadership role with leadership qualities such as role modeling, perseverance, empathy, pragmatism, visionary, innovative, coaching, stimulating, and valuing employees so as to enhance staff performance.