The Effect of Leadership Styles on Employees’ Job Satisfaction in Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH)Ethiopia
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2016-05
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Addis Ababa University
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This main objective of this paper is to examine the effect of leadership styles on job satisfaction of employees working in the Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH) Ethiopia in year 2016. This study depends on data gathered from managers/supervisors and workers of all operation and system units in the PATH Ethiopia. Although correlations between leadership styles and job satisfaction has been studied in a wide variety of arenas and in similarly extensive range of situations, few of these studies focus on this relationship in the context of international non-governmental organisations in African context. Different from this absorption on Western context, this study will look at the relationship between leadership styles and job satisfaction of employees in the context of developing country, Ethiopia with specific concern to PATH - Ethiopia and discovers the effect of leadership styles on employee job satisfaction. A 36-item Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire developed by Bass and Avolio and Job Satisfaction instrument used by Spector were used to measure leadership styles and job satisfaction. Information gathered from respondents was analyzed using descriptive and correlation analysis. The study uncovered that leadership styles were fundamentally related with job satisfaction. The findings of the study demonstrated that there was a huge relationship amongst transactional and transformational leadership style and employees' job satisfaction. The discoveries likewise uncovered that employees favored transformational leadership style over transactional leadership style subsequently the most astounding mean score of the worker job satisfaction measurement went to transformational leadership style. The result of the present study proposes the significance of transformational leadership style that ought to be advanced through the organization's strategies and representative assessments. Key words: Transformational leadership, transactional leadership, laissez faire leadership and employees’ job satisfaction.
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Transformational leadership, transactional leadership, laissez faire leadership, employees’ job satisfaction