How Different Leadership Styles Affect Job Satisfaction
Arijanto, A. (2018). Leadership Style, Career Development, and Work Satisfaction to Employee’s Performance. European Research Studies, 21, 276-291.
The study is aimed at determining various types of leadership and their effects on career development and job satisfaction, along with the performance of employees. The study findings reveal that leadership style has a significant impact on employees’ performance and career development.
Brdulak, J., Senkus, P., & Senkus, A. (2017). The concept of employee motivation and leadership related to lifestyles. Filosifija sociologija., 28(2), 109.
The research investigates the association between the concept of life in recognizing employees’ motivation assertiveness towards management and their duties about leadership behaviours. This article indicates that certain types of companies employ diverse better human capital management through various lifestyle concepts related to Douglas McGregor theory, lifestyle-based theory, and. Motivation theory.
Choi, S. B., Kim, K., & Kang, S. W. (2017). Effects of transformational and shared leadership styles on employees’ perception of team effectiveness. Social Behavior and Personality: an international journal, 45(3), 377-386.
The study uses three different multiple regression models to examine the effectiveness of transformational and shared leadership styles on the efficacy of a team. The article, in a nutshell, shows that administrators should cooperate with workers to ensure that their leadership is sufficient for the success of an organization’s operations.
Choi, S. L., Goh, C. F., Adam, M. B. H., & Tan, O. K. (2016). Transformational leadership, empowerment, and job satisfaction: the mediating role of employee empowerment. Human resources for health, 14(1), 73.
The research was aimed at examining the causal association between the perceived transformational form of leadership, empowerment, and job satisfaction in two broad public and private hospitals in Malaysia among medical assistants and nurses. The article is essential as it can help healthcare administrators to lobby human resource policies as well as strategies aimed at improving the satisfaction in the nursing profession to achieve full potential and safeguard the delivery of health care services.
Cummings, G. G., Tate, K., Lee, S., Wong, C. A., Paananen, T., Micaroni, S. P., & Chatterjee, G. E. (2018). Leadership styles and outcome patterns for the nursing workforce and work environment: A systematic review. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 85, 19-60.
The study used a systematic review research methodology to examine the relationship between different leadership styles and their outcomes for the nursing workforce and their working environment. As such, the results included a total of 129 studies that were examined using content analysis and nursing outcomes grouped in health and wellbeing, the satisfaction of staff, working environment factors, productivity, effectiveness, and the relationship between staff.
Dehbannejad, M., Sayadi, Z., Pordanjani, H. R., & Aghad, O. J. (2017). The Impact of Leadership Style on Employee Creativity: Mediator Role of Employee Trust. Journal of Economic & Management Perspectives, 11(1), 1393-1402.
The objective of the study is to explore the effects of the style of leadership on the creativity of employees underpinned on the trust of employees as the mediator role. A correlational-descriptive research methodology was used, and the data collected from three questionnaires were analyzed used SPSS and Lisrel software programs. The results showed that the trust of employees intercedes the style of leadership and creativity of employees. The article succinctly indicates that type of leadership positively impacts on staff’s creativity with the mediator role of employee’s trust.
Iqbal, N., Anwar, S., & Haider, N. (2015). Effect of leadership style on employee performance. Arabian Journal of Business and Management Review, 5(5), 1-6.
The purpose of the study is to investigate the impact of various leadership styles, including autocratic, participative, and democratic, on the performance of employees. The research methodology used is a descriptive approach integrated with findings from secondary resources. The study results depict that participative leadership has the most influence on employees since it is used in the long term, while autocratic leadership is used in the short-term.
Mohiuddin, Z. A. (2017). Influence of Leadership Style on employee performance: evidence from pieces of literature. Journal of Marketing and Management, 8(1), 18.
The study explores how various leadership styles influence employees’ performance in achieving organizations goals. The source aligns with past pieces of literature that various leadership approaches have a different impact on workers’ beneficial outcomes. The study employed a descriptive method of research in analyzing previous literature in examining circumstances with an organization related to varying forms of leadership and the influence on the performance of employees from top-level management to lower level in a corporate environment.
Sadiartha, A. A. N. G. & Sitorus, S. A. (2018). Organizational Culture, Communication and Leadership Style on Job Satisfaction. International Journal of Research in Business and Social Science (2147-4478), 7(4), 1-9.
The study intends to explore the role of leadership style, the culture of an organization, and communication towards job satisfaction. The study focused on senior high schools, and vocational secondary schools and 55 principals filled a questionnaire developed from the four variables. The data was analyzed using SPSS 22.0 and multiple linear regression analysis. The results showed that leadership style and communication have a significant effect on job satisfaction and a simultaneous impact on the culture of an organization.
Ritonga, M. W. A. N., Ibrahim, M., & Bahri, S. (2019). The Practice of Work Culture, Suitability of Tasks, Leadership Style That has an Impact on Performance. International Journal of Research in Business and Social Science (2147-4478), 8(4), 114-123.
The study’s objective was to examine the impact of the performance of staff upon executing job satisfaction as a mediating factor on executions along with perceptions of work culture, leadership style, and suitability of tasks. Data was collected using questionnaires and analyzed using “The Structural Equation Modeling (SEM).” The results exhibited that a culture of work, leadership style, and job suitability has a far-reaching impact on the performance of employees.
Yahaya, R., & Ebrahim, F. (2016). Leadership styles and organizational commitment: a literature review. Journal of Management Development, 35(2), 190-216.
The study is a systematic literature review aimed at investigating the relationship between various leadership styles, including transactional, transformational, and laissez-faire on employee satisfaction with the leader, effectiveness of the leaders, and other commitment of employees in addition to organizational commitment. The results of the study align with other studies that leadership styles have a significant effect on the level of engagement of organizations of employees.
Conclusion and Recommendation
The sources above are relevant according to the topic research study. They all reveal that leadership style has a significant effect on employees’ job satisfaction. I would, therefore, recommend managers to employ leadership styles that promote a company’s culture and holds employees’ rights by recognizing them as part of the company. Such leadership styles include servant and authentic leadership approaches.
References
Arijanto, A. (2018). Leadership Style, Career Development and Work Satisfaction to Employee’s Performance. European Research Studies, 21, 276-291.
Brdulak, J., Senkus, P., & Senkus, A. (2017). The concept of employee motivation and leadership related to lifestyles. Filosifija sociologija., 28(2), 109.
Choi, S. B., Kim, K., & Kang, S. W. (2017). Effects of transformational and shared leadership styles on employees’ perception of team effectiveness. Social Behavior and Personality: an international journal, 45(3), 377-386.
Choi, S. L., Goh, C. F., Adam, M. B. H., & Tan, O. K. (2016). Transformational leadership, empowerment, and job satisfaction: the mediating role of employee empowerment. Human resources for health, 14(1), 73
Cummings, G. G., Tate, K., Lee, S., Wong, C. A., Paananen, T., Micaroni, S. P., & Chatterjee, G. E. (2018). Leadership styles and outcome patterns for the nursing workforce and work environment: A systematic review. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 85, 19-60.
Dehbannejad, M., Sayadi, Z., Pordanjani, H. R., & Aghad, O. J. (2017). The Impact of Leadership Style on Employee Creativity: Mediator Role of Employee Trust. Journal of Economic & Management Perspectives, 11(1), 1393-1402.
Iqbal, N., Anwar, S., & Haider, N. (2015). Effect of leadership style on employee performance. Arabian Journal of Business and Management Review, 5(5), 1-6
Mohiuddin, Z. A. (2017). Influence of Leadership Style on employee’s performance: evidence from the literature. Journal of Marketing and Management, 8(1), 18.
Ritonga, M. W. A. N., Ibrahim, M., & Bahri, S. (2019). The Practice of Work Culture, Suitability of Tasks, Leadership Style That has an Impact on Performance. International Journal of Research in Business and Social Science (2147-4478), 8(4), 114-123.
Sadiartha, A. A. N. G. & Sitorus, S. A. (2018). Organizational Culture, Communication and Leadership Style on Job Satisfaction. International Journal of Research in Business and Social Science (2147-4478), 7(4), 1-9.
Yahaya, R., & Ebrahim, F. (2016). Leadership styles and organizational commitment: a literature review. Journal of Management Development, 35(2), 190-216.