Research on the relationship between leadership style and job satisfaction
Research on the relationship between leadership style and job satisfaction
Mohammad Heydaari1 Zhou Xiaohu2
1) 1. Ph.D. student in Management Science and Engineering, School of Economics and Management, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China. (E-mail:
2) 2. Dr. Sci (Business Manag.), Professor Nanjing University of Science and Technology, The School of Economics and Management, (Xiao LingWei. 200, 210094 Nanjing, China): (E-mail: Corresponding Author
Publication :
International Conference on Engineering & Technology - Norway (12icet.com)
Abstract :
There are a lot of research focused on leadership style and its relationship with job satisfaction, but not too many on the relationship between Likert leadership and job satisfaction to solve this problem, the current study aims to investigate the relationship between leadership style and job satisfaction with an academic staff sample from Shahed high school in Tehran province, Iran. In this study, quantitative research was conducted. Research finding shows that the consultative system; participative system; school principal and leadership style has a positive relationship with job satisfaction, while exploitative authoritative and benevolent authoritative don’t have any relationship with job satisfaction. Also, according to the results of SPSS software between demographic characteristics of teachers don’t have any relationship with job satisfaction.
Keywords :
Job satisfaction
leadership style
Likert theory
Effectiveness management
Performance