Pdf this current research investigates the impact of autocratic and democratic leadership style on job satisfaction in private and public school. Democratic leadership style has positive influence on job satisfaction. Influence of leadership style on teachers job productivity in public secondary schools in taraba state, nigeria. Committed employees are expected to perform at a greater level than their. Pdf the impact of autocratic and democratic leadership. The impact of autocratic and democratic leadership style on job satisfaction. The impact of autocratic, democratic and laissezfair. Researches indicate that most of the time leaders are not aware how far their leadership style influences on employee performance, satisfaction. Influence of autocratic leadership style on the job. From her study head librarians who adopt democratic leadership style are most likely to have high performance level from subordinates. The influence of leadership styles on organizational. The employees of the international tourist hotels are the most important links in the service delivery chain because they are in direct contact with their customers. Principals leadership styles and teachers job satisfaction.
The impact of participative leadership on employees motivation, job satisfaction and innovation p a g e 5 list of figures number title page figure 1. Democratic leaders encourage staff nurses to openly communicate and contribute to decisionmaking. Leadership style and employees job satisfaction in. The influence of leadership styles on organizational commitment. As utilized in the study, these three leadership styles were considered and tested to determine its relationship with job satisfaction and performance. This current research investigates the impact of autocratic and democratic leadership style on job satisfaction in private and public school. The impact of autocratic and democratic leadership style on job satisfaction article pdf available in international business research 52 january 2012 with 56,768 reads how we measure reads. The impact of autocratic, democratic and laissezfair leadership style on employee motivation.
Successful leaders carefully analyze problems, assess the skill level of subordinates, consider alternatives, and make an informed choice. Democratic the leader is people orientated and focuses on human relations and teamwork. Results of the study show that the autocratic leadership style has the least positive correlation r. Democratic leadership aims to improve systems and processes, rather than blame individual team members for mistakes. It has been stated that the organizational performance and effectiveness of employees may rest from the following three basic pillars.
International tourist hotels play important roles in the service industry and have to constantly improve their competitiveness. The effect of participative leadership style on the. The styles studied were transactional leadership, transformational. The effects of leadership styles on the organization. Many studies suggested that autocratic leadership leads to lower levels of job satisfaction and employee. Below is a brief examination of some common leadership style dimensions listed above and their potential impact on a group as well as their relative usefulness. A leadership style is key in determining the level of employee performance in a company. The impact of participative leadership on employees. To summarize, this research will explore the impact of leadership styles, which include autocratic leadership, democratic leadership laissezfaire leadership, transactional leadership and. There are several types of leadership styles such as transformational leadership. The principal is responsible for all affairs of the school. In an educational organization, principal plays a vital role. This style leads to improved productivity, and job satisfaction. Leadership, job satisfaction and organizational commitment.
Participative management and its links to rewarding strategies and job satisfaction in smes article pdf available april 2018 with 14,028 reads. Data analysis regression analysis is used to predict the value of the one variable on the basis of other variables. This article describes the results of a study conducted on private and public schools, in order to see how autocratic and democratic leadership styles affected job satisfaction. From support materials and results of the study, it was observed that there is a. Unfortunately, in smaller businesses, the autocratic leadership style is much more frequent than the democratic one. A definition and illustration of democratic leadership. Therefore, this paper is to examine the role of different leadership styles practiced, and the perception towards gender and ethnicity in an organization in order to enhance job satisfaction and work quality of small medium enterprise sme in malaysia. Results showed that democratic, autocratic and laissezfaire leadership styles jointly contributed about 68. Also, all the teachers irrespective of gender agreed that democratic leadership enhance their job satisfactions. Impact of transformational leadership styles is more. The leader encourages the groups to assume responsibility for establishing goals, setting policies and solving problems.
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of participative leadership style on the performance of senior managers of the company of the year award coya winners in kenya. Research regarding the impact of leadership style of hospital managers on employees job satisfaction and commitment is relatively new in iranian health care organizations. At the end it was concluded that the autocratic leadership is useful in the short term and democratic leadership style is useful in all time horizon. Impact of leadership styles on organizational performance. The person who makes decisions about the school is known as principal. After conducting the research, the researchers revealed that the leadership styles create a positive. Specifically, it is suggested that the autocratic leadership leads to lower levels of job satisfaction, while democratic leadership leads to higher level of job. Impact of autocratic leadership on motivation and performance. Leadership style impacts the organization by affecting employee morale, productivity, decisionmaking speed, and metrics. A democratic leader focuses on building relationships with an eye on job satisfaction and staff development. The impact of autocratic and democratic leadership style.
This study measured preferences for each of five common leadership styles and examined correlations with measures of employee satisfaction. On the other hand, a leadership style in which the leader values the opinions and suggestions of the. The impact of principals transformational democratic leadership style on teachers job satisfaction and commitment by cheah lee hwa thesis submitted in fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of doctor of philosophy june 2008. Autocratic, democratic and laissezfair 20 figure 2. The purpose of this study was to contribute to a better understanding of the relationship between leadership behaviors of managers and these two employees workrelated. They distinguished democratic leadership from autocratic and laissezfaire styles, arguing that democratic leaders relied upon group decision making, active member involvement. Team motivation, dynamic leadership, leadership style, leadership theories, culture, healthcare. The impact of autocratic, democratic and laissezfair leadership. The study focused on the impact of autocratic leadership style on job performance. Descriptive statistics show that the most significant value associated with employee performance is democratic leadership style followed by laissezfaire leadership style and autocratic leadership.
Relationship between leadership style, job satisfaction. It was found that leadership style has a positive impact on job satisfaction and public teachers have high level of job satisfaction rather than private teachers. However for the purpose of this study autocratic and democratic leadership style would be used for hypothesis testing. The result reveals that democratic leadership style has greater influence on subordinate job performance, followed by autocratic and laissezfaire leadership style.
Difference between autocratic and democratic leadership. Further empirical studies such as the study carried out by rossmiller 1992 revealed that teachers perception of principals transformational leadership skills has significant impact on teachers job satisfaction and often concluded that principles of the school practicing transformational leadership are more likely to foster and. In laissezfaire leadership style, leaders have minimum involvement in decision. The items were based on five point scale from almost always to almost never. The main objective of this study was to assess if leadership style had anything to do with employees performance in the image providing cable network swecom. The data were collected from two hundred and five 205 teachers of both. Understanding the link between leadership style, employee. A study of relationship between leadership styles of. The paper aims at detecting relations between participative management and rewarding strategies as well as employees job satisfaction in. For this purpose a questionnaire was developed and validated. Based on this premise, the present study aims to explore the relationship between leadership style and organizational performance. Autocratic leadership otherwise known as a authoritarian leadership, is a leadership style deem by individuals as control over all decisions and little input from group tem members.
And participation leadership style is most useful in long term and effect on employees is positive. Pdf the impact of autocratic and democratic leadership style on. The effect of democratic leadership on organizational. Regression coefficient analysis shows that there is a significant and positive impact of democratic and laissezfaire leadership styles on. He further states that job satisfaction under laissezfaire style is less than democratic leadership. It can either lead to increased or decreased employee performance. This paper is the only attempt to date that explores the effects of the four leadership styles on team motivation. Such an understanding should be applied to enhance job satisfaction and increase productivity. It was found that leadership style has a positive impact on job satisfaction and public teachers have high level of job satisfaction rather than. The study focused on the impact of autocratic leadership style on job performance of subordinates in academic libraries in port harcourt, rivers state, nigeria. Compare and contrast democratic and autocratic leadership. Impacts of leadership style effectiveness of managers and.
It is important to know that which leadership style has. They need to provide their customers with consistently high service quality in order to satisfy them. The article presents you all the differences between autocratic and democratic leadership. The leader believes that human beings are evil, weak, unwilling to work, incapable of selfdetermination, and have limited reasoning. In the study it embracing traditional beliefs, norwas. Is there any relationship between job satisfactions with democratic style leadership in sme. The leader of an educational institution is principal. Autocratic leadership style has negative influence on job satisfaction.