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    The Impact of Leadership Styles on Employees’ Job Satisfaction in Trading Companies: A Case of Horra Corporate Group
    (Addis Ababa University, 2022-07) Sherefudin Elias; Asrat Bahran
    The challenges in contemporary business environment have been pushing business organizations to use effective leadership to satisfy their employees so as to stay competitive in the market. The main objective of this study was to examine the impact of perceived leadership styles on employee's job satisfaction in Horra Corporate Group (HCG). A descriptive and causal research design with a survey structure was employed. Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ), participative leadership questionnaire, and Job Satisfaction Questionnaire (JSS) were used to collect the primary data. A total of 148 questionnaires were distributed and a response rate of 85.81% was achieved. The findings show that transformational style was found to be the dominant style practiced in HCG followed by participative, transactional, and laissez-faire styles. It was also found that employees in HCG were, overall, neither satisfied nor dissatisfied with their job. Transformational leadership positively influenced employees’ job satisfaction the most followed by the participative style but, the laissez-faire style negatively influenced employees’ job satisfaction. And it was concluded that the leadership styles significantly impact the overall employees’ job satisfaction in HCG. Thus, to enhance employees’ job satisfaction through the leadership styles in HCG, it was recommended that the leaders/managers/ in HCG should practice transformational and participative styles more frequently than the current level and they should minimize practicing the laissez-faire style. In addition, it was recommended that HCG should engage its employees in decision making process and should train its managers/leaders/ to acquire additional skills of transformational and participative style for full level practices