The Relationships Between Leadership Style And Employees’ Job Satisfaction In Woreda Education Offices Of West Shoa Zone

Abstract

The main aim of this study was to examine the relationship between leadership style and employees’ job satisfaction in selected woredas of education offices of west shoa zone Oromia National Regional State. The study was conducted randomly in selected seven districts of west Shewa zone. Descriptive research deign was employed in this study and in order to achieve the objective of this study random sampling procedures were used in selected study site. Beside to correlation, Both Quantitative and qualitative research methods was employed for the study. As well as The collected data were analyzed both quantitatively and qualitatively. A questionnaire with seven points liker scale was used to collect primary data on leadership styles and different dimensions of employees’ job satisfaction from 92 respondents working in seven selected districts. Identifying dominant leadership style practiced in the selected districts and determining relationship between leadership style and employees job satisfaction was analyzed using SPSS version 21 software. The results showed that respondent’s working in selected woreda’s significantly replied transformational leadership style practiced over transactional leadership style. Until the six dimensions mentioned are fulfilled, employees were not satisfied with their job. There is a strong relationship between transformational leadership style and employees’ job satisfaction. The correlation value between transformational leadership and job satisfaction is 0.374. This reveals that there is a strong positive correlation between transformational leadership and employees’ job satisfaction. In addition, transformational leadership which is a (mean = 3.6, SD = 0.92) has more related to employs job satisfaction than Transactional leadership with a (mean is 2.8 and SD =0.633). To conclude, employees were dissatisfied with their job due to low amounts of payment, low recognition, low opportunity for promotion, with unsatisfactory supervision, for having poor physical working environment, and with their workload or too heavy work. Lastly, fulfilling the dissatisfied factors or that discourage employs, promoting transformational leadership style, training leaders to practice transformational leadership style in increasing both the satisfaction level of their employees and the success of their organizations are my recommendations