Abstract
The purpose of the study was to examine the influence of participative and achievement-oriented leadership styles on employee job satisfaction in commercial banks in Kenya. This study adopted the positivism research philosophy while building a descriptive correlational research design. The target population of the study was 15,030 employees in all the 43 commercial banks licensed to operate in Kenya as of June 2018. , the study drew a sample size of 386 employees reporting to middle-level managers, using a stratified sampling technique. Data were collected utilizing a questionnaire and analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics — statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 20. The results of the study showed that a participative leadership style and achievement-oriented leadership styles positively and significantly predicted employee job satisfaction. From the results of the regression analysis after moderation, it was revealed that environmental contingency factors significantly moderated the relationship between path-goal leadership style and employee job satisfaction.
Highlights
Globalization has ushered immense change in today’s corporate world, leading to emerging dimensions in the study of leadership styles under path-goal theory in use at organizational level and the level of satisfaction of employees
The study sought to establish the influence of achievement oriented leadership style on job satisfaction among employees reporting to middle level managers in commercial banks in Kenya
The study investigated the influence of participative leadership style on employee job satisfaction among employees reporting to middle level managers in commercial banks in Kenya
Summary
Globalization has ushered immense change in today’s corporate world, leading to emerging dimensions in the study of leadership styles under path-goal theory in use at organizational level and the level of satisfaction of employees. This has led to setting of new parameters that organizations must meet in order to achieve competitiveness (Malik, 2013). From the results of the latter study, it was confirmed that achievement oriented leadership style positively and significantly enhance employee job satisfaction This again highlights the fact that leadership style in application in an organization is important in determining job satisfaction
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