TITLE:
Leadership Style and Its Relationship to Job Satisfaction for Employees at the University of Babylon
AUTHORS:
Ahmed R. Al-Owaidi, Thabet Ali Saleh, Meriem Benmechirah
KEYWORDS:
Leadership Styles, Job Satisfaction, Democratic Leadership, Autocratic Leadership, Laissez-Faire Leadership, University of Babylon—Iraq
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Business and Management,
Vol.11 No.6,
November
9,
2023
ABSTRACT: The goal of this study was to examine the
association between leadership styles and job satisfaction from the perspective
of a sample of employees (administrative and teachers) with various job titles
and scientific titles at the University of Babylon—Iraq and used a
questionnaire as a tool for collecting data that adopted a five-point Likert.
Scale to represent the opinions of the study sample, that was selected using
the random sampling method, where the researchers randomly distributed (55) a
questionnaire and (50) valid questionnaires were approved for analysis,
representing a response rate of (91%). The results of the study showed that
there is a positive and strong correlation between the style of democratic
leadership and job satisfaction and that there is an inverse relationship
between the style of autocratic leadership and job satisfaction. The study’s
findings also showed that there is no connection between a laissez-faire
leadership style and job satisfaction. Accordingly, the study recommended that
the style of leadership adopted in the organizations targeted by the study
should enhance job satisfaction, loyalty to the organization, and performance
in general. The study also suggested expanding the research circle to include a
larger number of governmental as well as private universities and adopting
other leadership styles as variables for future research.