Department Finance and Management Studies, Oromia State University, Oromia, Ethiopia
Review Article
Assessing Leadership Characteristics and their Impact on Leadership Effectiveness: The Case of One Public Institute in of Ethiopia
Author(s): Jaleta Shuka Gurmu* and Kebede Geneti Feyissa
The research was done with the objective of assessing leadership characteristics and its impact on leadership effectiveness in the study organization of Ethiopia. Intended for this purpose, in this research both descriptive research and hypothesis testing research methods were implemented and only quantitative study approach was used, and 50 questionnaires were prepared from Essential Behavioral Leadership Qualities (EBLQ) method. Probability sampling technique was implemented for collecting data from 100 respondents from the study organization, and the relevant data was analyzed using a descriptive and inferential statistics. Accordingly, the result of the study revealed that from the total 50 leadership characteristics only 5 of them were with the highest mean value of 5 and found to be the dominant characteristics exhibited by the leaders at the study organization, 6 of them were w.. View more»