Studying the Effect of Leader’s Participative Behaviors on Employee’s Effectiveness Perception and Performance (Kohdasht Municipality as Case Study)

This study was aimed to study the effect of leader’s participative behaviors on employee’s
perception of effectiveness and performance. In order to this, the variables of this study are
participative behaviors (participative management), employee’s performance, and
effectiveness perception. The last variable is multi-dimensional that could divide into three
dimensions including leader effectiveness, collective effectiveness, and self-effectiveness. This
study is descriptive-survey from methodology perspective and is practical from goal
perspective. The statistical population of this study is 105 employees of Kohdasht municipality.
In order to determine sample size, Morgan table used and 83 employees were chosen as
sample members. A self-administrated questionnaire developed to gather data with Likert 5-
points scale. This includes 36 items about participative behaviors, leader’s effectiveness,
collective effectiveness, self-effectiveness, and employee’s performance. In order to examine
reliability of the questionnaire, Cronbach’s Alpha was used. The coefficient of this test was 0.91
for this questionnaire and shows that the questionnaire has good reliability and hence
reliability of the questionnaire confirmed. Also the questionnaire correct and modified by some
of management professors and after conducting a primary sampling, final version of the
questionnaire developed. Therefore, validity of the questionnaire confirmed through content
validity. In order to analyze data and concluding results, descriptive statistic and inferential
statists were used. Regressions test and Pearson correlation test is the main statistical test that
used for this purpose. The results of this study indicate that there are significant relationships
between leader’s participative behavior and employee’s performance. Also the results show
that significant there are significant relationships between perception of collective
effectiveness and employee’s performance. Also the results show that there are significant
relationships between perception of self-effectiveness and employee’s performance. Finally
some empirical suggestions offered for managers and officials of Kohdasht municipality.