Leadership styles and employees' job satisfaction : a case study of Mukono YMCA college

Abstract

The study examined the relationship between leadership styles and employees' job satisfaction.The study was conducted at Mukono YMCA College, behind Colline hotel, and a few meters off Bugerere road in Mukono municipality. The objectives of the study were: to determine the relationship between transformational leadership style and employees job satisfaction, to .establish the relationship between transactional leadership style and employees job satisfaction relationship and to examine the relationship between democratic leadership style and employees job satisfaction. The researcher used a case study design which involved both qualitative and quantitative research approaches. A sample of 66 respondents was selected using purposive and simple random sampling techniques for easily locating the respondents. The study used both primary and secondary data in its analysis. Data analysis involved frequencies, percentages and relational statistics such as correlations and the coefficient of determination. The study findings revealed that there is a significant positive relationship between transformational leadership style and employees' job satisfaction. The findings also revealed a significant positive relationship between transactional leadership .style and employees' job satisfaction. It was also revealed that there is a strong positive relationship between democratic leadership style and employees' job satisfaction. It was concluded that there is an inconsistent system that offers actual rewards in place to appreciate adherents' behavior, the management does not focus attention on dealing with irregularities, mistakes, exceptions, and deviations from standards, employees are not invited during decision making, there is no delegation of work to lower staff The study recommends that Mukono YMCA College should adopt a democratic leadership style if it is to attain a higher level of employees' job satisfaction at the college since a democratic leadership style influences employees' job satisfaction. Also the researcher also recommends Mukono YMCA College to adopt a transformational leadership style since it also a has a positive relationship with employees' job satisfaction at the college basing on the regression results because an increase in the adoption of a transformational leadership styles improves employees' job satisfaction