Effects of Leadership Styles and Administrative Pattern on Service Delivery in Ekiti State Local Governments

Abstract

Leadership is seen as the ability to influence, control or coordinates the activities and functions of others in such a manners to facilitate the realization of organizational goals, objectives or results using definite approaches/styles or pattern. The effective leadership styles and administrative pattern has continuously being questioned following the persistent downward trends of socioeconomic developments and growths, especially within the governmental organizations/establishments in good service delivery to the society. This work is designed based on this to find out the influence of leadership styles and patterns of administrations in engendering socio-economic development at the grassroots, using selected local governments in Ekiti state as a pilot study. The study adopted a qualitative approach and key informants were selected and interviewed. The study found that, the various leadership styles and administrative patterns in the study area have been significantly hampered and, local government administration/services are steering towards moribund reflecting from ineffective administrative pattern and inordinate leadership styles. The work recommends a definite but constructive and autonomous system of governance and a resourceful leadership styles into the administrative pattern of public establishments including local government’s administrations.