Leadership Styles and Job Satisfaction

Saima Asghar and Isaiah Oino

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Abstract: Low compensation in the retail sector is adversely affecting employee satisfaction and turnover. Leadership style is important for motivating employees and increasing their satisfaction level. This study has examined the effect of transformational and transactional leadership styles on job satisfaction in selected retail outlets of Slough, United Kingdom. The adapted questionnaire was administered to the employees of the retail outlets. The sample size was 270 and the response rate was 85%. The study found that transformational leadership style has a positive effect on job satisfaction, whereas transactional leadership style has an insignificant effect on job satisfaction. Therefore, it can be argued that the transformational leadership style is more effective in the retail sector of Slough, United Kingdom.

Keywords: Transformational leadership; transactional leadership; job satisfaction (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C00 C12 D23 J28 L81 M12 M59 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-10-02, Revised 2017-12-15
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Published in Market Forces 1.XIII(2018): pp. 1-13

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