Abstract:
With an effective leadership, the employee's efforts to achieve the goals of the organization,
his desire to remain as a member of the organization, the increase in the performance of the
employee by adopting and integrating the organization, adding value to the organization and the
costs that may occur when the employee leaves the job are prevented. While many factors play a
role in ensuring commendable job performance, the influence of the leader in this process is quite
large. The leader ensures that the employees adopt the vision, mission, and strategies of the
organization, create the necessary environment for them to do their jobs more lovingly in the
working environment, and ensure that the individual goals of the employees and the goals of the
organization meet on a common ground. The leader is the enforcer of the rules regarding the
working principles of the organization. In this study, the relationship between leadership styles
and individual work performance of employees in the banking sector of Azerbaijan is examined.