ISSN 2310-4090 2017. The Authors, International Journal of Scientific Footprints This is an open access article which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, with the condition that original work is properly cited. Influence of Instrumental and Participative Leadership Styles on Job Performance Abdul Haseeb Tahir 1 , Ayesha Tanveer 2 , FahadFaheem 3 , Abdul Rahman 4 and Zobia Saeed 5 1, 2 Lecturer, Department of Management Sciences, Institute of Southern Punjab, Multan-Pakistan 3, 4 Research Scholar, Department of Management Sciences, Institute of Southern Punjab, Multan-Pakistan 5 Faculty, Divisional Public School and College Sahiwal-Pakistan Keywords: Participative Leadership, Instrumental Leadership, Worker‟s efficiency, Job Performance. Correspondence: Abdul Haseeb Tahir. Lecturer, Department of Management Sciences, Institute of Southern Punjab, Multan-Pakistan. Funding Information: No funding information provided . Manuscript History: Received: July 2017 Accepted: A u g u s t 2017 International Journal of Scientific Footprints 2017; 5(2): 1 -8 Abstract In this study we try to found the Influence of “Instrumental Leadership” and “Participative Leadership” styles on “Job Performance”. This study is conducted on the workers of Sales and Manufacturing sector where workers get targets and day tasks. We constructed a questionnaire survey and conducted a survey to measure the response. For this purpose we collect data from 200 peoples who are the working under both types of managers (Leaders). We concluded results through correlations and regression analysis and found that “Participative Leadership” style is more effective than “Instrumental Leadership” style. This study does not only fill the gap in the literature but also improve the understanding that how “Participative Leadership” style is more effective than “Instrumental Leadership”. Under “Participative Leadership” style workers work with the help of their managers (leaders) and devote their full energy to accomplish tasks and targets with full efficiency and effectiveness as well as improve their productivity, which enhances the profitability of the that organization too. Introduction Effective leadership is the need of today‟s emerging multinational companies and other institutions because it is an important variable having tremendous impact on the success of every company and institute (Gharehbaghi and McManus, 2003). But leadership comes into sight when leader and its subordinate interact with each other, and during this process leader influence the behavior of his subordinates (Purvanova and Bono, 2009). In practice, there are many multinational companies and institutes facing problems in their leadership management. These problems may be due to inappropriate leadership styles in dealing with staff working in any area of the organization. Effective work and great performance comes from staff, but this performance does not always happen. Staff usually performs well only to appropriate leadership styles. The