Matai, Julius MoengaOnsiro, Martin2024-08-212024-08-2120242808 7399https://erepository.mku.ac.ke/handle/123456789/6229One of the most important factors that determine the success of business endeavors is the organizational leadership that is both focused and effective. For the purpose of inspiring teams and directing efforts toward the accomplishment of organizational objectives, this leadership is absolutely necessary. The study purpose was to analyze organization leadership as an implementation strategy of performance of National Social Security Fund, Kenya. The researcher identified three theories for the study; Economic Theory of wealth creation, Social cognitive Theory and Systems Theory. The study philosophy was interpretivism with explanatory and descriptive research design espoused. The target population of the study was 365 employees of the National Social Security Fund at the head quarters. The population was stratified or categorized according to their cadres, then purposive sampling was used on the predetermined senior management cadre while simple random sampling techniques was used on the middle management and non-management staff who had equal chances of being selected for analysis. Questionnaires were administered to be completed by respondents for primary data while document analysis helped the researcher to secure secondary data. The sample size was 186 and this was determined using Krejcie and Morgan table. Data was analyzed using inferential and descriptive statistics. Under inferential statistics the researcher used regression while under descriptive statistics; the mean and the standard deviation were used for measures of central tendency and measures of dispersion respectively. The outcome was presented by the use of frequency tables. The study demonstrated a strong positive correlation (R = 0.793) between leadership and performance, with approximately 62.9% of the variability in performance explained by the model (R Square = 0.629). ANOVA results indicated that the regression model is statistically significant (F = 9.168, p < .001), suggesting thatenArticle