Publication: Differential Leadership Styles Implications on Employee Performance and Organizational Growth in Small Enterprises in Berlin
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BA
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2025
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Abstract
The current research was aimed at interpreting and evaluating the comparative effects of servant,
transformational, as well as transactional leadership styles on employee performance and
organizational growth within small enterprises in Berlin. For this reason, the methodology was
centralized on the use of a quantitative strategy with a survey instrument comprised of 42
respondents utilizing the Servant Leadership Survey (SLS) along with the Multifactor Leadership
Questionnaire (MLQ). The findings indicated that transformational leadership turned out to be the
most favored approach to leadership, subsequent to transactional one, whilst servant leadership
received significant appreciation owing to the conceptual frameworks of authorization and
accountability. In addition, the employee performance indicators demonstrated positively reported
assessments metrics across all the measured dimensions with work quality receiving the highest
ratings whilst organizational growth reflected stability with plausible improvements in innovation.
Comparably, the qualitative analysis found a critical disconnect between technological
advancement and leadership capacity in Berlin's technology sector since it was inferred that Berlin
SMEs excel at technical implementation but are disrupted with major workforce challenges mainly
that of talent acquisition and retention as well as with remote work coordination. Accordingly, it
was concluded that whilst each leadership style provided Berlin SME employees with diversified
and unique advantages, yet a strategized integrative leadership approach utilizing both the
transformational vision, servant leadership's personalized support, and transactional structure is
recommended as imperative for an efficient and sustained success in Berlin's progressively volatile
and versatile SME landscape.