Relationship among Managerial Behaviors, Locus of Control and Organizational Success in Private Sector Organisations in Ghana

Abstract

Managerial leadership is real and vastly consequential phenomenon, and perhaps the single most important variable in the human science since it is about performance of teams, group and organizations. This survey study sought to find out about the relationship among managerial behaviours, locus of control (personality) and group success in the private sector organizations in Ghana. It was conjectured that managerial personality would predict group success, and managerial behaviours would have significant relationship with group success as well as significantly mediate personality – group success relationship. The participating managers numbering 265 were tasked to complete questionnaires on personality and group success while their subordinates also numbering 795 also responded to the managerial behaviour rating for each manager. The results showed that personality was a better predictor of group success than managerial behaviours. Furthermore, managerial behaviours had small predictive power hence their mediating effect was inconsequential. This study is therefore akin to researches that espouse the validity and usefulness of personality (locus of control) as a predictive variable of group success and/or organization success.