“Carrot and stick” leadership style

Kwasi Dartey-Baah and Emmanuel Ampofo

African Journal of Economic and Management Studies, 2016, vol. 7, issue 3, 328-345

Abstract: Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to examine the relevance of “carrot and stick” (transactional) leadership style in predicting employees’ job satisfaction in a modern business organization. Design/methodology/approach - The study was cross-sectional in nature and made use of structured questionnaire to collect data. Stratified and simple random sampling techniques were used to select the respondents. In total, 215 questionnaires were returned by respondents out of the 220 administered. Taylor and Bowers (1974) overall job satisfaction questionnaire and Bass and Avolio (2004) multifactor leadership questionnaire, were used to measure job satisfaction (α=0.812) and transactional leadership style (α=0.761), respectively. Simple linear regression was also used to predict the relationship between the constructs. Findings - Results indicated significant and positive relationship between managers transactional leadership style and employees overall job satisfaction (β=0.292,p

Keywords: Job satisfaction; Leadership style; Transactional leadership (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1108/AJEMS-04-2014-0029

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