Effect of Transformation Leadership on Project performance: A case of the sponsorship project at Africa new life Ministries (2015-2019)

Abstract

The term transformational leadership can be defined as a strategy that can change and improve the lives of people. Leadership can affect many work related behaviors like employee’s attitude, motivation and performance which can affect the performance of any project. This study was guided by the objectives such us to assess the degree to which team members can affect the performance of a project at Africa New Life Ministries, to examine the extent to which transformative leadership impacts behavior of leaders and their sub-ordinates at ANLM and to explore the relationship between transformational leadership and project performance at Africa New Life Ministries. The study used a cross-sectional research design, which entails analyzing data that is collected from respondents at a specific point in time. A quantitative research approach was used because it eases the application of statistical tests in making statements about data since the data was expressed in numbers and therefore easy to run descriptive statistics, regression analysis, correlations, and frequency counts among others. The sample of 103 respondents was selected from the sponsorship project at Africa New Life Ministries using a probability method called simple random sampling. This method of sampling was used since it gives every respondent an equal chance of being selected and also avoids bias. The data that was collected was first edited for uniformity, precision, wholeness, consistency and was later arranged to enable tabulation coding before the final analysis. SPSS version 16.0 was therefore used to analyze and interpret results. Descriptive tools such as frequencies, percentage, means and standard deviation was used to analyze some variables. Furthermore, multiple linear regressions were used to examine the relationship between the dependent variables and the set of independent variables at 5% level of confidence. The average mean is 4.0 which is strong and needs to be in very strong level and standard deviation of 0.3744 that showed the respondents’ homogeneity of perception. The result also showed that the average mean is 4.0 which is strong and needs to be improved in very strong level and standard deviation of 0.5561 that showed the respondents’ homogeneity of perception and the regression results in Table 4.8 show a statistically significant positive relationship between idealized influence, intellectual stimulation, inspirational motivation and project performance at 5 percent level of significance since the p-values are less than 0.05. This made a researcher to confirm H0: by saying that there is a significant association between transformational leadership and project performance in ANLM and reject H1: by saying that there is no significant association between transformational leadership and project performance in ANLM.