摘要：Leaders are essential for the survival and development of businesses and they can affect and inspire
employees, colleagues and other people to dedicate to the company. Among factors associated with
leaders, leadership skills are considered as the most important characteristics because leadership
skills are the abilities to perform tasks, transform knowledge into leaders' actions and demonstrate
the leadership's expertise when applying the acquired knowledge in practices to achieve desired
performance. This article focuses on studying the effects of leadership skills on the performance of
Vietnamese textile and garment companies, which is one of the most important industries of this
developing country. To achieve the objectives of this study, this article uses quantitative approach
with various statistical techniques; namely, Cronbach's Alpha, EFA and CFA, SEM to analyze the
primary data with SPSS and AMOS software and to test the hypotheses. The results show that
strategic skills had the greatest impacts on the performance of Vietnamese textile and garment
enterprises followed by interpersonal and business skills. Cognitive skills had the weakest effects
on the performance of Vietnamese textile and garment enterprises. Thus, to enhance performance,
leaders should improve and develop these skills. This study does not show possible differences in
gender, age, experience and position of leader in this relationship, which is considered as the
limitation of the survey. Leadership skills affect positively the performance of Vietnamese textile
and garment enterprises. The order of the most influencing factors are: strategic skills, interpersonal
skills, business skills, and cognitive skills.
关键词：Leadership skills;Firm performance;Textile and garment companies;Vietnamese companies
