The Effect of Leadership Styles on Employee Job satisfaction: The Case Of PEPFAR Implementing University Partners
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2014-12
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
The research study achieved its aims of defining and assessing the relationship between
leadership styles (transactional and transformational) and employee’s job satisfaction
in Presidential Emergency Program for HIV/AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) funded implementing
Partner (IP) located in Addis Ababa-Ethiopia. The purpose is to examine the effect of
leadership styles on the dimensions of employees’ job satisfaction. This study also
attempted to investigate what types of leadership styles contribute to the high
managers/supervisors and subordinates who have working in head office Addis Ababa
were purposively selected. Data were collected from 7 manager/supervisors and 23
subordinate using Bass & Avolio's (2004) Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ )
which measure transformational leadership and transactional leadership styles and
Clark (2009) Employee Job satisfaction survey(JSS) which measure employees’ job
satisfaction dimensions. Survey data collected from respondents was analyzed using
descriptive and cross tabulation analysis.
The findings of the study indicated that there was a significant relationship between
transactional and transformational leadership style and employees’ job satisfaction.
The transformational and transactional leadership styles positively influenced job
satisfaction of employees’ working in these organizations. The findings also revealed
that employees preferred transformational leadership style over transactional
leadership style as a result the highest mean score of the employee job satisfaction
dimension went to transformational leadership style, With the cross tabulation
analysis, the data indicated that there was a significant relationship between
leadership styles (transformational and transactional) and particular dimensions of job
satisfaction i.e. relationships of employees with their supervisors and job
independence. There is also an interesting relationship between leadership styles
(transactional and transformational) with the biographical variables i.e. Age and
Gender. Employees at their younger age they preferred a transformational leader than
transactional leader and female employees were satisfied and more inclined to
transformational leaders than transactional leaders.Finally, it is the recommendations of the research study that leaders (whether they are
transactional or transformational) have an impact on employees’ job satisfaction and
we observed that there was a significant difference with the relationships of
employees with their supervisors and degree of independence particular dimensions of
job satisfaction and the style of the organization’s leaders.
Key words: Transformational leadership, transactional leadership and employees’
job satisfaction.
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Transformational leadership, transactional leadership and employees, job satisfaction.