Leadership styles and job performance in medical professionals at hospital Vitarte– Lima, 2018

Objective: To determine the relationship between leadership styles and job performance of the medical staff of Hospital Vitarte Lima, 2018. Methods: Descriptive, correlational and cross-sectional study. A non-probabilistic purposive sampling was done by selecting 64 workers. Also, data collection was done through a previously validated questionnaire and internal consistency analysis by Cronbach's alpha. Results: The descriptive statistics determined a 50 % in the Democratic Leadership Style of the dimensions and a level higher than 60 % for Job Performance, the inferential statistics through the Hypothesis Test by Spearman's correlation coefficient (rho = 0.85) showed a high positive correlation in both variables. Conclusion: There is a positive correlation between the dimensions Democratic Leadership Style and job performance, so the creation of quality improvement projects and training for workers is recommended.