Establishing How Church Leadership Affects Job Satisfaction among Church Workers in Nakuru West Sub County.

Abstract

The main purpose of the study was to establish how church leadership affects job satisfaction among church workers in Nakuru West Sub County. Herzberg’s Two-Factor and the expectancy theories guided the study. The study employed descriptive survey research design. The target population for the study were the pastoral and other church employees in all the 4 mainstream churches in Nakuru West Sub County. These churches have combined staff population of 188 staff comprising of the pastors, evangelists, secretaries, administrators, caretakers and other staffs recruited depending on the needs and capability of the churches. The study used the primary data where questionnaires were used to collect data after being subjected to Cronbach test for reliability and judgmental test for validity. The study conducted a piloting study, Data was analysed using SPSS version and will initially be analysed using descriptive statistics, and thereon, inferential statistics such Pearson product moment correlation and multiple linear regression analysis. Results was presented in the form of tables and figures. From the research findings, it can be concluded that church leadership encourages teamwork among employee leadership. The study recommended that church leadership do more effort on teamwork so they may able to share and integrate individual ideas for the betterment of job performance.