Impact of Leader’s Integrity on employee job satisfaction and Organizational success: An Empirical Study in FE Construction Plc
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2020-06
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Addis Ababa University
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The purpose of this study is to study the impact of leader’s integrity in organizational success and employee job satisfaction in a selected organization. Integrity is an element that always stays with leadership and organizational context worldwide yet, its impact on employees and organization success have not been thoroughly investigated. This study was done in one organization, FE construction plc. In order to achieve the objective of the study, both descriptive and explanatory research design was chosen. And also quantitative research approach was implemented. Stratified random sampling techniques were used to select 56 employees who served as respondents in the study. Data was gathered using self-administered questionnaire survey which distributed to 56 respondents. The study used SPSS 23 version, descriptive statistics, and correlation and regression analysis to analyze the data collected and to evaluate the relationship between the two variables. Based on the result, The Correlation result indicated that there is a positive and significant relationship between leaders integrity and organizational and employee performance. Also multiple regression analysis result revealed that except work confidence all variables of leader’s integrity had positive and significant effect on organizational and employee performance. Besides, it is found that aspect of leader’s integrity has the highest influence on employee job satisfaction in FE construction plc. From the analysis the researcher recommends that FE construction plc should give priority for the proper implementation of leader’s integrity character than other dimensions because this leaders integrity character has highest effect on employee job satisfaction. Finally FE construction have to implement integrity ( important effective leadership quality/character) appropriately and continuously, as a major tool for gaining trust relationship with followers which in turn leads to organizational performance. The study also recommends that future research that will take a part of survey all the regional offices across the country and better to study in multiple organizations. Such a study will increase accuracy of data and improve reliability.
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integrity, leader’s integrity, employee job satisfaction