Leadership in an organisationResearch BackgroundThe highly competitive market economies have continuously forced majority of organisations around the globe to find various strategies on improving themselves in terms of operations and performance. This is not only vital for meeting their organisational objectives, but also for sustenance (Zheir et al, 2012. !revious researches and studies claim that leadership is the key factor for an organisation or business to survive, operate and perform in today"s competitive market (#imane,201$%(&ass,1''0%( (ung, 2002. )urthermore proper leadership is the strategic element in increasing and achieving organisational goals (&ass *+volio, 1''$ %( ,ousef, 1''-. .n the other hand, some researches and studies contend that organisational leadership is an embellished concept in that it is not necessary in attaining organisational performance since thereare other internal and e/ternal factors that come into play ( 0smail et al,1''-% (&ass* +volio,2002%(1unjis,2011.+ number of researches and studies have been carried out to demonstrate that leadership and organisational performance, commitment and innovation go hand in hand ((udge, &ono, 0lies and2erhardt, 2002% (udge and !iccolo, 2003% 4eller, 2005% 1c2rath and 1ac1illan, 2000% 1eyer and 6epard, 2000% !urcell, 4innie, 6utchinson and 7ickson, 2003% ,ukl, 2002. 8onversely, some studies for instance, 6ouse and +ditya (1''9 suggest that is not a key factor in achieving organisational performance, commitment and innovation. 7ue to the conflicting findings concerning the role of leadership and organisational performance,commitment and innovation, point out there is a need to study the role of leadership comprehensively. 6ouse and +ditya (1''9, suggests studying the importance of leadership on organisational performance, commitment and innovation is necessary because of the conflicting results from latter studies.)urthermore, prior studies and researches have put much more emphasis on the large business organisations (6ouse*+ditya 1''9 and limited emphasis on the :mall and 1edium ;nterprises (:1;s. Thus this paper uestions of the study is as follo