Transformational Leadership and Job Satisfaction

Alex Minten

doi:10.18690/978-961-286-388-3.39

Abstract

There has always been discussion about how transformational leadership influences empoyees` job satisfaction and by doing so positively influences their performance. It is the main goal of this paper to analyze the influence of transformational leadership on job satisfaction. The data used for the analysis was collected via standardized internet survey in German. In the survey two standardized questionnaires were used: The SAZ (Scale for measuring job satisfaction) and the LSA (Leadership Style Assistant). The results demonstrate a statistically significant correlation between transformational leadership and job satisfaction with a beta of 0.417 (p<.01). Next to the main finding, it can be shown, that the influence of transformational leadership on job satisfaction is stronger for male employees with higher education. It can be shown, that transformational leadership is a way to improve empoyees` job satisfaction although individual employees react different depending on gender and education. That can be explained by different expectations on leadership as well as the influence of leadership on work organization, flexibility and inspiration.

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Research on workplace attitudes is one of the most common topics in organizational psychology
The results obtained in this study are in agreement with those of other authors, who noted the short-term positive effect of job loss risk and its destructive longitudinal effect. These results provide a positive answer to the question: longterm exposure to the employee's job insecurity leads to poor emotional attitude towards the job and lowering their work performance, as evidenced by the dynamics of the energy indicator
For the recipient country to benefit from the investment, the foreign investor must provide a sufficient number of jobs, employee salaries following the principle of marketability, and that the business generated by the investment is not predominantly export-oriented

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Research on workplace attitudes is one of the most common topics in organizational psychology. Judge and Kammeyer-Mueller (2012) define attitude toward work as a personal evaluation of work that expresses feelings towards work, beliefs and connection to work These three components determine a person's workplace behavior and productivity. Vukšić (2005) analysed the impact of FDI on Croatian product exports and concluded that FDI has a positive effect on export, but on a relatively small scale He finds that export-oriented greenfield projects would improve exports within the manufacturing industry in Croatia. The results of the analysis confirm the positive impact of FDI on the productivity of Croatian companies and indicate that a large part of the potential positive effects of foreign capital inflows has been utilised, despite a smaller share of greenfield investment and a more inferior sectoral distribution of FDI. VCs are one of the most appealing investors in the PE industry because of their knowledge, personal networks they use to boost young companies (Zeisberger, Prahl, & White, 2017)

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