Author: Sanarya Adnan Anwer, Ahmed Jawhar Mohammad, Bryar Sami Abdulrahman, Khowanas Saeed Qader, Diyar Abdulmajeed Jamil, Bayar Gardi, Karkhi Khalid Sabah

Abstract: The current study aimed to examine the influence of three different leadership style including (authoritarian leadership style, democratic leadership style, laissez faire leadership style on work environment at selected private businesses in Erbil. The current study applied quantitative research method to measure the developed research hypotheses. The study prepared a questionnaire consists of different sections; including questions regarding to the authoritarian leadership, certain questions regarding to the democratic leadership, moreover several questions regarding to the Laissez-Faire leadership styles and lastly set questions about work environment at private businesses. The findings revealed that the most powerful leadership style with associated with work environment was Laissez-Faire leadership followed by democratic leadership style and the lowest value was for authoritarian leadership style.

Keywords: Leadership, authoritarian, democratic, laissez-faire, work environment

Article Info: Received: 13 Oct 2022; Received in revised form: 03 Nov 2022; Accepted: 10 Nov 2022; Available online: 15 Nov 2022

DOI: 10.22161/ijels.76.4