Perceived Leadership Styles and Job Satisfaction

Abstract

The following research aims to investigate the relationship between leadership styles and job satisfaction among employees in the manufacturing sector. The major forms of leadership styles taken in this study is transactional and transformational forms of leadership styles. This quantitative research consists of 107 participants with whom the data are collected using structured close-end questionnaire. The shortened form of Northouse’ (2001) Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire, Form 6-S (MLQ-6S) developed by Bass and Avolio (1992) was used for measuring the independent variables of transactional leadership and transformational leadership and Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire (MSQ) (20 items), developed by Weiss, Dawis, England and Lofquist (1977) was used for measuring the dependent variable job satisfaction. The findings indicated a significant positive correlation between transformational leadership scores and job satisfaction, as well as a moderate positive correlation between transactional leadership scores and job satisfaction. Transformational leadership has more impact on influencing job satisfaction; transactional leadership style has no significant impact on job satisfaction as a result by linear regression done on the data.

Keywords: Transformational and Transactional Leadership, Job Satisfaction, Relationship

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