Leadership Supportiveness and Employee Punctuality of the Deposit Money Banks in Enugu State

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• July 18, 2022
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ABSTRACT

The study evaluated the leadership supportiveness and employee punctuality of the deposit money banks in Enugu State. Ten (10) selected Banks were used for the study out of 21 registered banks in Nigeria. The banks were chosen with no number of branches in Enugu metropolis and staff. These banks include: United Bank of Africa (UBA), Guaranty Trust Bank (GTB), Union Bank, ECOBANK, Fidelity Bank, Access Bank, First Bank, First City Monument Bank (FCMB), Zenith Bank, and Polaris Bank. The hypotheses were analyzed using Pearson correlation coefficient (r) statistics tool. The findings indicated that the relationship between leadership effective communication and employee ability to complete a required task is significantly, the relationship between the frequency of leadership seeking out feedback and employee time reliability of deposit money banks was significantly high, and that the relationship between leadership democracy and employee trustworthiness of deposit money banks in Enugu state was significantly high. The study concluded that leadership effective communication, frequency of leadership seeking out feedback and leadership democracy had high significant relationship with employee ability to complete a required task, employee time reliability and employee trustworthiness of deposit money banks in Enugu State. The study recommended among others that for keeping employees engaged and focused in the right direction leaders should cultivate a sense of trust in the workplace through the messaging coming from leaders.

Keywords: Leadership Supportiveness; Employee Punctuality; Deposit Money Bank

Authorship
Ugwu Felix Ikechukwu, PhD. | FULL PDF