Bogale, Mengistu (PhD)Assefa, Meseret2020-11-302023-11-042020-11-302023-11-042020-06http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/23705The main objective of the study was to examine effects of leadership style on employee job satisfaction in CBE. Primary and secondary sources of data were used in the study. To collect the primary data the study employed a non-random sampling technique to select the branches and respondents. A total of 327 questionnaires were sent to 327 non managerial employees through CBE internal email and 321 respondents completed the MLQ and JSS questionnaires. The collected data was analyzed through SPSS version 20. Descriptive statistics analyzed through frequencies, mean and standard deviation to identify the dominant leadership style and level of job satisfaction and correlation and regression analysis were also used to identify the relationship between two variables and the effect of leadership style on employee job satisfaction. The descriptive statistics result shows that the employees exhibited an ambivalent level of job satisfaction and the current dominant leadership style at the organization is transactional leadership. The result of correlation analysis indicated that there is strong correlation between transactional leadership style and job satisfaction. In addition regression analysis revealed that the three leadership styles has an effect on job satisfaction and the regression model used was found a good fit for the data. It is concluded that transactional leadership style is most dominantly exercised so it is recommended that CBE should update its leadership development program enhance the knowledge and skills of their branch managers and supervisors to adopt transformational leadership style in addition to transactional leadership style in order to improve job satisfaction and organizational outcomesen-USTransformational LeadershipTransactional LeadershipLaissez-faire leadershipThesis