The study examined the effect of democratic leadership on the non-financial performance of Farmers’ Cooperative Societies in Anambra Agricultural Zone. Specifically, the objectives are to: determine the influence of socio-economic profile of cooperatives and distributing responsibility on non-financial performance in Anambra Agricultural Zone. Descriptive survey research design was adopted. The population of the study consists of 427 agricultural cooperatives in the four local government areas which make up the Anambra Agricultural Zone. Primary source were used to generate data for this study. Data were presented and discussed through the use of descriptive statistics such as percentage, frequency distribution table, mean and standard deviation. Regression analysis was employed to analyze and test formulated hypotheses at the 0.05 levels of significance. The study concluded that Socio-economic profiles, distributing responsibility of cooperatives. On this note, the study recommended among others that Cooperative management need to emphasize more in enterprise development toward promoting small and medium enterprises as a prerequisite and a strategy for job creation and socio-economic growth in a large number of societies.
Democratic leadership, Non-financial performance and Farmers’ Cooperative Societies
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