Leadership Styles and Employee Turnover Intention in the Ghana Audit Service: The Moderating Role of Employee Motivation

Abstract

Leadership is a complex process involving the interaction of numerous variables. Thus, many theories have been developed to explain leadership approaches, behavioral styles, and outcomes. This article presents the results between leadership styles (Transformational, Transactional and Laissez-faire) and turnover intention. It also assessed the moderating role of employee motivation between leadership styles and turnover intention. Statistical analyses were done on data gathered from 150 respondents at the Ghana Audit Service, Accra. The analysis indicated that the overall leadership styles do not have positive significant relationship with turnover intention. Also, motivation did not moderate the relationship between the overall leadership styles and turnover intention in the Ghana Audit Service but rather moderated between laissez- faire leadership style and turnover intention. The implications of these results were discussed.