Leadership Choice and the Performance of Leaders in Voluntary Associations. A Case of Kisumu Clergy Fellowship
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2017-10
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Olew, Tobias Odipo
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Panafrica Christian University
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In a dynamic environment such as that presented by the 21st century, leadership becomes a pivotal point of focus for any organization that wants to survive and desire success. Whether an organization has the right leaders it needs and how such leaders are chosen must concern every organization. Kisumu Clergy Fellowship (KCF) and its leaders have persistently contended with divided opinions about its leadership and mixed reactions about its performance. This study examined issues surrounding leadership performance within KCF in an attempt to provide insight into how to avoid past mistakes and failures associated with leadership, especially how the mode of leadership choice influenced leaders’ performance at KCF. This included factors that affect or influence such choice and how these relate to performance. The study used a descriptive survey design. The population of the study comprised of the 135 members of the Kisumu Clergy Fellowship, and especially focused on the period 2014-2016. The study employed stratified random sampling. The sample size included officials and KCF members from each of the zones that constitute KCF membership. A sample size of 45 was used. The Transformational Leadership Theory to identify the concepts under study. The primary data collection was done through questionnaires and subjected to descriptive analysis. The study found that while the mode of leadership choice had a relationship with leaders’ performance, such relationship was only to the
extent that it affected the followers’ perception of the leader in terms of the legitimacy of his/her position but had no pivotal role in determining leadership performance. Factors that influence leadership choice like character, experience, professionalism, charisma and gender were found to also affect performance and needed to be considered as qualifying criteria for leadership choice. The study recommended that adopted modes of leadership choice must promote leader-acceptance and the factors influencing choice must be those with relevance to the responsibilities of the so chosen leaders. The study concluded that performance is affected and determined by diverse elements other than mere mode of leadership choice and the factors surrounding it
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The Leadership Concept,Mode of Leadership Choice,Factors Influencing Leadership Choice
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