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    Leadership Styles, Managerial Empowerment and Strategic Decision Making among Star Rated Hotels in Uganda
    (Makerere University Business School, 2023) Nasaka, Sophia
    This study sought to examine the relationship between leadership styles, managerial empowerment and strategic decision making among star rated hotels in Uganda. The study adopted a cross sectional research design and stratified simple random sampling to gather data from 81 star rated hotels by Uganda Tourism Board in the entire country. Apart from assessing the reliability and validity of the constructs through confirmatory factor analysis, this research also used Pearson correlation approach to test the proposed hypotheses. The study established that there was a positive and significant relationship between leadership style and strategic decisions making (r=.691**, p<.01). The results also found there was a positive and significant relationship between managerial empowerment and strategic decisions making (r=.660**, p<.01). The study found out that leadership styles and managerial empowerment predict 51.2% of strategic decision making (Adjusted R Square = 0.512). The regression model was significant and thus reliable for making conclusions and recommendations. The most significant predictor of strategic decision making was leadership style (Beta= 0.449, t= 5.312, Sig. = .000), followed by managerial empowerment (Beta= 0.314, t= 3.717, Sig. = .000). The findings revealed that leadership style and managerial empowerment were strong predictors of strategic decision making (p<0.05) A key recommendation is that hotel managers should be allowed to exercise the kind of leadership style that is suitable depending on the prevailing situation. Hotels should also put in place a policy and a working environment that empowers managers to take relevant strategic decisions. The limitations for this study were that, the sample for this study is based on rated star hotels in Uganda, using managers as unit of inquiry and cross sectional in nature. In addition, the present study employed quantitative techniques, therefore, future studies can consider the entire hotel sector in Uganda, consider all employees as unit of inquiry and also employ qualitative or both qualitative and quantitative or any other method of research design and analysis of information.