ASSESSING LEADERSHIP QUALITY AND EMPLOYEE WELLBEING IN PAIKORO LOCAL GOVERNMENT: A QUALITATIVE APPROACH

Leaders play a pivotal role in organizations and their conduct has a considerable impact on the work behavior, performance and well-being of their employees. The leadership literature, though, has largely neglected research on employee health and well-being in favor of employee performance. It is against this backdrop that this paper adopts qualitative method using interview and secondary data to explore the Impact of leadership quality on employees' performance in Paikoro Local Government. The study established that leaders have contributed marginally to the wellbeing of workers as a result of absence of political-will and general failure of government which has breeds pervasiveness of impunity and so, ruins leadership obligation to the wellbeing of the workers vis-à-vis policies and program in Paikoro Local Government. The manifest disrespect to institutional law and unlawful liberty or arrogance of power among the leaders coupled with perpetual evasion of justice fundamentally explains why leadership qualities have marginally impact on the wellbeing of the employees In the light of above, the study recommends for structural transformation, re-orientation on leaders/followers attitudinal change as a lead crusade for the restoration of the leadership virtues as a stepping stone to enhance a hitch free application of rule of law to enhance the wellbeing of the workforce in Paikoro Local Government.