Abstract:
The study was intcnded to examinc the impact of leadership development on employee
performance in large scale tyre manufacturing industry in Sri Lanka. This study was
carried out considering five factor's of leadership development such as empowerment,
training and development, coaching, participation and delegation. Further it was found
that the combined effect of these identified five factor's have an impact on employee
performance. Though, five factors have an impact on employee performance, other
leadership development factors can have an impact on employee performance such as:
attitude, commitment, motivational factors, and trust in the organization, and also factors
like as compensation, reward and bonuses etc. can also increase the employee
performance either short term or long term. The five variables collectively as leadership
development factors prove a synergic effect and increase the overall employee
performance. The policy alternative should be that organizations must be cleared about
the learning requirement of the employees. All the hypotheses developed in this study
were accepted and were positively related to employee performance. Findings reveal that
there is a significant and positive impact among leadership development and its
dimensions with employee's performance. It is concluded that participation has the
highest impact on employee's performance and empowerment has the least impact on
employee performance.
