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Leadership Styles and Job Satisfaction in Pakistan

This document examines the influence of leadership styles on employee job satisfaction in the Pakistani private sector. It hypothesizes that transformational leadership has a positive impact on intrinsic and extrinsic job satisfaction, while transactional leadership has a negative impact. The study collected data from 260 employees and found that transformational leadership correlated positively with job satisfaction, supporting the hypotheses, while transactional leadership correlated negatively. It concludes that transformational leadership is more important for employee satisfaction in the Pakistani context.

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Leadership Styles and Job Satisfaction in Pakistan

This document examines the influence of leadership styles on employee job satisfaction in the Pakistani private sector. It hypothesizes that transformational leadership has a positive impact on intrinsic and extrinsic job satisfaction, while transactional leadership has a negative impact. The study collected data from 260 employees and found that transformational leadership correlated positively with job satisfaction, supporting the hypotheses, while transactional leadership correlated negatively. It concludes that transformational leadership is more important for employee satisfaction in the Pakistani context.

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Can leadership Styles have an

influence on employee job satisfaction:


A Case from Pakistani Private Sector
Saad Babar
Lecturer
Hamdard University Islamabad Campus

Objective
The objective of this study is to illustrate leadership
style influence (both transactional & transformational)
on employees job satisfaction in context of Pakistani
Private Sector.

Research Questions
To what extent are the leaders in Pakistani Private
Sector aware of different leadership styles?

How leadership styles create impact on employees job


satisfaction in Pakistani private sector companies?

Literature
Leadership is a procedure that creates a connections of
management with its supporters where the innovator
efforts to impact supporters to accomplish a typical
objective (Northouse, 2010; Yukl, 2005).

Job satisfaction is being described as how much an


individual like their job or the process they are doing
work in, job satisfaction is not to how the job can be
performed done well, or how much effort a worker have
put into it (Hughes et al., 2006).

Theoretical Framework
Employee
Characteristics
Age
Education
Experience

Leadership Style
Transformational
Leadership
Transactional
Leadership
Independent
Variable

Moderating
Variable

Job Satisfaction
Intrinsic Job
Satisfaction
Extrinsic Job
Satisfaction
Dependent
Variable

The proposed model of the study has been adapted

Hypothesis
H1: The constructs of transformational leadership style has
positive and significant impact on intrinsic job satisfaction
of employees in Pakistani private sector.

H2: The construct of transformational leadership style has


positive and significant impact on extrinsic job satisfaction
of employees in Pakistani private sector.

H3: The construct of transactional leadership style has


positive and significant impact on intrinsic job satisfaction
of employees in Pakistani private sector.

H4: The construct of transactional leadership style has


positive and significant impact on extrinsic job satisfaction
of employees in Pakistani private sector.

Methodology
Research Design
Descriptive
Casual
Cross sectional

Population
Geographical boundaries of Islamabad and Rawalpindi

Sample
The sample size was 260

Software
SPSS software was used to conduct the analysis

Descriptive statistics The descriptive analysis of the


study shows that transformation
leadership style has the highest
mean of 3.24 with the dispersion
of less than 2%. It also illustrates
that Intrinsic Job Satisfaction,
Extrinsic Job Satisfaction and
Transactional leadership style
have mean of 3.099, 3.18 and
2.804 respectively with the
dispersion of less than 3%

Correlation Matrix

Correlation matrix indicates that there is positive correlation of intrinsic


and extrinsic job satisfaction with transformational leadership style.

Reliability

Regression Analysis
Regression H1

It shows that I.J.S is


directly and positively
related to
Transformational
leadership style.

Regression H2

It shows that E.J.S is

directly and
positively related to
Transformational
leadership style.

Regression H3

It shows that E.J.S is


directly and
negatively related to
Transactional
leadership style.

Regression H4

It shows that E.J.S


is directly and
negatively related
to Transactional
leadership style.

Conclusion and Recommendations


Based on the results of this research, transformational
leadership is more essential with regards to satisfaction
of employees than transactional leadership.

The research confirms the need of Transactional style of


leadership (as compare with transformational) in order
to enhance employees job satisfaction (both intrinsic
and extrinsic) specifically in the context of Pakistans

The results revealed that transformational leadership


style has a positive connection with job satisfaction
whereas transactional leadership style has a negative
connection with job satisfaction in Pakistani private
sector.

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