Effect Of Leadership Behavior On Employees Job Satisfaction In Case Of Ethiopian Roads Authority (ERA)
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2019-07-12
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Addis Ababa University
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The purpose of this study was to assess the effect of leadership behavior on employee job satisfaction in Ethiopian Roads Authority Head office Quarter based on path goal leadership theory. The study employed explanatory research design and quantitative research approach. Primary data was collected from structured questionnaire and secondary data was collected from previous studies, journals, articles and books. The study used J. Carvalho “Archival application of mathematical sampling techniques. Accordingly, 125 questionnaires were distributed and 111 were obtained & used for further analysis. The collected data was analyzed using SPSS software version 21. In addition, to analyze the collected data descriptive statistics (frequencies, means & standard deviations), and multiple regression analysis were used. The finding of this study indicated that only supportive leadership behaviour has a positive and strong significant effect on job satisfaction on ERA employees. And employees of ERA are not significantly affected by participative, achievement oriented and also directive behavior has insignificant effect on job satisfaction of ERA employees. It is also indicated that currently the most dominant type of behavior is participative leader behavior however the behavior that was found to contribute more to job satisfaction in ERA is supportive leadership behaviour. Accordingly the researcher forwarded the following recommendation. The company should practice of using supportive leadership behavior which has significant effect on job satisfaction. The company should also conduct job satisfaction surveys from time to time & take corrective actions on areas that need improvement
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leadership behaviour, job satisfaction, Ethiopian roads Authority