The Contribution of Leadership of Public Universities in Improving Employee Performance

Abstract

Leadership is key to employee performance, and leadership in the universities is responsible for the performance of employees in their institutions. This article seeks to find out the contribution of university leadership in improving employee performance. The researcher adopted both the survey and purposive sampling technique with a 5-point Likert Scale questionnaire to solicit data. The article relied on Hicks's (2015) key indicators for improving employee performance. The findings reveal that the employee of the universities has the requisite skills to match their task, and also understand the goals of the institutions, however, the leadership of the universities need to attend to the challenges of incentives for staff, feedback on performance, and the processes of accessing scholarship for training.