scholarly journals Assessing the Relationship Between Leadership Styles and Job Satisfaction

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Sean Ratican
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Leadership Styles ◽  
Leadership Style ◽  
The United States ◽  
Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Honestly Significant Difference ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
The Impact

The United States workforce is in a period of transition. In April 2020, more than 20 million U.S. workers were out of work. As the economy seeks to reboot, organizations will have to prioritize how they rebuild their workforces. Prior to the global pandemic, there was nearly unprecedented low unemployment within the United States. Firms were constantly seeking ways to stabilize turnover within their organizations to achieve a competitive advantage. This research was conducted to analyze the impact leadership style has on employee job satisfaction. Surveys were collected to determine if there were significant differences in the perceived leadership styles within the industry, a relationship between leadership and job satisfaction, and identify a monetary threshold for which employees would quit. A hybrid of the Vannsimpco Leadership Survey (VLS) and Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire (MSQ) was administered to the 92 survey respondents. A single factor, one-way ANOVA was conducted to analyze the participants’ responses to the survey. The ANOVA calculations revealed a significant difference among the nine leadership styles (F [8, 819] = 12.36, p < .001). A Tukey's Honestly Significant Difference (HSD) test was used to test for significance between the means and found significance in 14 of the 36 pairs.

scholarly journals COVID-19 and reproductive justice in Great Britain and the United States: ensuring access to abortion care during a global pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Chloe Romanis ◽  
Jordan A Parsons ◽  
Nathan Hodson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Medical Abortion ◽  
The United States ◽  
Reproductive Justice ◽  
Abortion Care ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Legal Barriers

Abstract In this paper we consider the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic is having on access to abortion care in Great Britain (GB) (England, Wales, and Scotland) and the United States (US). The pandemic has exacerbated problems in access to abortion services because social distancing or lockdown measures, increasing caring responsibilities, and the need to self-isolate are making clinics much more difficult to access, and this is when clinics are able to stay open which many are not. In response we argue there is a need to facilitate telemedical early medical abortion in order to ensure access to essential healthcare for people in need of terminations. There are substantial legal barriers to the establishment of telemedical abortion services in parts of GB and parts of the US. We argue that during a pandemic any restriction on telemedicine for basic healthcare is an unjustifiable human rights violation and, in the US, is unconstitutional.

scholarly journals Leadership style and job satisfaction: A developing economy perspective

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 390-399 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeevarathnam Parthasarathy Govender ◽  
Hari Lall Garbharran ◽  
Roland Loganathan
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Transformational Leadership ◽  
Leadership Styles ◽  
Transactional Leadership ◽  
Leadership Style ◽  
Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire ◽  
Satisfaction Questionnaire ◽  
Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire ◽  
Multifactor Leadership ◽  
The Relationship

Research has suggested a relationship between leadership style and job satisfaction. This paper examines this relationship in the context of a developing country, viz., South Africa. The objective of the paper is to assess the relationship between the two variables as well as the influence of biographical variables on leadership style and job satisfaction. The survey was based on the Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire and the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire. The results suggest a significant correlation between the three leadership styles, viz., transformational leadership, transactional leadership and laissez-faire leadership, and job satisfaction. There were no significant differences between the biographical variables and the three leadership styles.

scholarly journals The Impact of Leadership Styles on the Job Satisfaction of Employees in a Garment Factory of Sri Lanka

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-69
Author(s):  
M. A. Shantha Wijesinghe
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Pilot Study ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Leadership Styles ◽  
Leadership Style ◽  
Organizational Level ◽  
Main Concern ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Garment Factory ◽  
The Impact

Job satisfaction is a common but important theme discussed at organizational level. It refers to the attitude and feelings that the people have about their work. Main concern of every organization is to maintain the satisfaction of the employees so that the organizational goals can be achieved successfully. Job satisfaction of the employees can be determined by many factors. Among them, leadership style followed by the leaders is also one of the important factors. Leadership style is the manner and approach of providing direction, implementing plans and motivating people.Many scholars have addressed the impact of leadership styles on the job satisfaction of employees in different manner. But, literature on this topic in the context of Sri Lanka has not sufficiently developed. There are only few studies covered the subject of leadership in Sri Lanka particularly limiting to few sectors. Therefore, this study attempts to fill that gap of the knowledge by addressing how leadership styles affect job satisfaction of the employees, particularly in a garment factory in Sri Lanka. Methodologically, deductive testing theory approach was followed by this study. Theory was developed by the literature based on the pilot study.  As the pilot study confirmed that three major leadership styles such as democratic, autocratic and transactional style are followed by the leaders, the impact of these three styles on the job satisfaction of employees were examined by giving a questionnaire to a stratified random sample of 60 employees. Basic hypothesis of the study was that the transactional leadership style should be the most significant in determining the job satisfaction according to human nature. But the outcome of this study confirmed that the impact of democratic style was statistically more significant than autocratic and transactional styles by rejecting the initial hypothesis.  

scholarly journals Portability of the job involvement and job satisfaction constructs between the United States of America and South Africa

1998 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. B. Boshoff ◽  
C. Hoole
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
South Africa ◽  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
Job Involvement ◽  
The United States ◽  
Satisfaction Questionnaire ◽  
Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire ◽  
Psychometric Instruments ◽  
Unites States

The notion of portability of constructs measured by psychometric instruments is introduced. Psychometric investigations by means of Principal Components Analyses, Item Analyses and calculation of Cronbach Alpha on the items of two generally used instruments are described. The results indicate that the constructs measured by the Kanungo Job Involvement Questionnaire and the Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire as well as the instruments themselves seem to be robust as far as portability between the Unites States of America and South Africa is concerned.

scholarly journals Transformational Leadership, Systems, and Intrinsic Motivation Impacts on Innovation in Higher Education Institutes: Faculty Perspectives in Engineering Colleges

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (15) ◽  
pp. 4072 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reem S. Al-Mansoori ◽  
Muammer Koç
Keyword(s):  
Transformational Leadership ◽  
Intrinsic Motivation ◽  
Leadership Styles ◽  
Leadership Style ◽  
Participation Rate ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Highly Correlated ◽  
Satisfaction With The Leader ◽  
The Impact

Learning institutes are unique places for innovation, technical transformations, and social changes, which are the main pillars for sustainable development. The purpose of this study was to examine the innovation capacity building through the impact of transformational leadership on followers’ satisfaction and output in two engineering colleges: one in a public university in the United States and the other in an International Branch Campus in Qatar. The Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire was used to assess leadership style, and three output indicators were chosen to represent innovative outputs. Innovation-driven systems and Intrinsic motivation were other innovation drivers assessed through the designed survey. The Statistical Package of Social Science was used to identify the correlated constructs of leadership styles and outcomes. The explanatory sequential mixed method helped explain the underlying reasons for the quantitative results through interviews with faculty. The study showed that leaders (deans) exhibited different ranges of transformational leadership styles, yet were lower than the norm. Moreover, transformational leadership traits, in addition to contingent rewards from transactional leadership, were highly correlated with followers’ satisfaction with the leader and the system. As this was a cross-cultural study, context affected the participation rate and response results, as hesitation to evaluate the dean was common in a high power–distance context.

Learning from Japanese Transplants and American Corporations

1995 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jim D. Rhody ◽  
Thomas Li-Ping Tang
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Personnel Management ◽  
Leadership Style ◽  
The United States ◽  
Employee Attitudes ◽  
American Business ◽  
Business Practices ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
The Past

In the past ten years, many Japanese manufacturers, especially automobile manufacturers, have opened plants in the United States. The Japanese have, in that time, increased their market share from one in five to nearly one in three cars that Americans drive. There are clear differences in Japanese and American business practices in the areas of organizational culture, leadership style, selection, training, employee attitudes, job satisfaction, and quality. American businesses must understand these differences and realize the most effective and efficient approach to produce goods and services that will fit in with our culture. The lessons we have learned from Japanese transplants and American corporations may have important implications to managers in public personnel management.

Leadership style and job satisfaction in higher education institutions

2016 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 140-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raimonda Alonderiene ◽  
Modesta Majauskaite
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Leadership Styles ◽  
Leadership Style ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Leadership Studies ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Faculty Job Satisfaction ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose – Although leadership is found to have impact on the followers’ attitudes and performance there is a gap in leadership studies in HEIs, especially having Lithuania in mind. The purpose of this paper is to study the impact of leadership style on job satisfaction of faculty in higher education institutions (HEI). Design/methodology/approach – In order to investigate before mentioned problem, the representative quantitative empirical research was conducted in 2013. It includes 72 faculty members and ten supervisors from Lithuanian public and private universities. The survey was conducted to check how leadership styles of supervisors influence faculty job satisfaction and compare the opinion of supervisors and subordinates. Findings – The empirical research revealed significant positive impact of leadership style on job satisfaction of faculty where servant leadership style has been found to have the highest positive significant impact on job satisfaction of faculty while controlling autocrat leadership style has the lowest impact. Research limitations/implications – There are several implications for further research. It can be expanded whether geographically (e.g. comparative analysis in different countries) or institutionally (e.g. in other educational institutions, such as schools or pre-schools). Practical implications – Practical implications reveal that supervisors have the power to increase the levels of job satisfaction of their faculty members, by defining their role as a leader, demonstrating certain leadership behaviors. Originality/value – This survey covers the area which lacks academic research, namely, the impact of leadership on HEI faculty. Previous leadership studies in HEI focus on particular leadership style demonstrated (van Ameijde, 2009), the impact of leadership on culture (Asmawi et al., 2013), organizational effectiveness (Siddique et al., 2011) and other factors. However, very few of them (one of the examples is the study of Webb, 2009 in USA) investigate the direct managers’ leadership style and faculty job satisfaction. Besides, the previous surveys have not covered as many leadership styles as this one does.

scholarly journals Diplomasi Digital Sebagai Dampak Pandemi Global Covid-19: Studi Kasus Diplomasi Indonesia Di Perserikatan Bangsa-Bangsa (Pbb)

2020 ◽  
pp. 100-119
Author(s):  
Muhammad Fikry Anshori
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Nations ◽  
International Development ◽  
The United States ◽  
Information And Communications Technology ◽  
Main Concept ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Digital Diplomacy ◽  
The Impact

The background of this article is the existence of a global pandemic COVID-19 which has an impact in various fields. This article seeks to explore the impact of the COVID-19 global pandemic on information and communications technology (ICT) in the form of digital diplomacy. Exploration is carried out by investigating the case of Indonesian diplomacy at the United Nations (UN) in March, April, and May 2020. The main concept in this article is digital diplomacy. This concept illustrates the use of ICT as a means of diplomacy for state actors and changes at the policy and institutional levels. This article found various digital diplomacy activities from the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Indonesia to the United Nations in New York, United States during the global pandemic COVID-19. These activities include: 1) coordination with Indonesia's Embassy and Consulate General in the United States to protect Indonesian citizens; 2) participation in UN Security Council virtual meeting to discuss international peace and security issues; and 3) participation in other UN bodies virtual meetings to discuss international development issues. This article argues that the impact of the COVID-19 global pandemic in the field of ICT is reflected in Indonesia's digital diplomacy at the United Nations. The global pandemic COVID-19 changed the means and tools used by Indonesian diplomats to gather information, negotiations, and responses on international issues. Even so, Indonesian diplomacy at the UN continues to run optimally.

scholarly journals The Influence of Supervisors' Leadership Style On Telecommuters

1970 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Paul Madlock
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Organizational Commitment ◽  
Leadership Style ◽  
Virtual Work ◽  
The United States ◽  
Communication Satisfaction ◽  
Work Setting ◽  
Virtual Workplace ◽  
Task Oriented

The purpose of the current study was to extend prior scholarship by examininghow employees who telecommute perceive their supervisor’s leadership styleand the subsequent outcomes. Specifically, the way in which leadership style influencesemployees’ perceptions of their supervisors’ communication competenceand communication satisfaction with their supervisor. Employees’ job satisfactionand organizational commitment was also assessed. Participants included 157 fulltime telecommuters from a variety of organizations across the United States. Thefindings suggest that supervisors in the virtual workplace engaged in task orientedmore than relational oriented leadership style. Also, task oriented leadership servedas the greatest predictor of the communication satisfaction, job satisfaction, and theorganizational commitment of telecommuters. Recommendations for practitionerswere also provided indicating that more might be done to enhance the task relatedleadership competencies of supervisors in the virtual work setting.

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