Abstract:
Leadership style is a vital factor for the success or failure of the development of any organizations in the world which play a significant role in enhancing or retarding the interest individual’s job satisfactions in the organization. The main objectives of the study was to assessing the levels the three leadership styles and the levels of employees’ job satisfaction in Ambo polytechnic college and identifies the leadership types that positively affects the job satisfactions in the organizations. The research design used was survey research design and the research approach was employed both quantitative and qualitative types of research. To this effect, combinations of quantitative and qualitative research methodology was appropriately used in the study because; mainly primary data was used and collected through questionnaire and interview from the APTC. To do so, the researcher selected 90 employees from the total employees of 210. The three Leadership styles were used for the test namely, Transformational, Transactional and Laissez-Faire, which indicated the relationship of leadership styles with employee job-satisfactions of APTC. After the data were collected, it was analyzed in qualitative and quantitative method of data analysis through the use of SPSS version 21 and the statistical analysis was made such as descriptive statistics, Pearson correlation, and reliability and validity tests. Correlational design was used in which 90 usable structured questionnaires were collected from 90 questionnaires distributed Both Pearson’s correlation analysis and regression analysis were used to assess both relationships in the study. The findings show that transformational leadership style is the most exhibited style which was followed by the transactional leadership style and laissez-faire. Overall, scores in transformational leadership style were found to be strongly correlated with both measures of employee job satisfaction and overall job satisfaction except for the intellectual simulation dimension, which had insignificant positive correlation with quality of performance. Transactional leadership style was found to be positively correlated with both measures of employees’ job satisfaction as well as overall job satisfaction. It is concluded that transformational and transactional leaderships are the most effective leadership styles in the college. The results suggest that supervisors in organizations need to use a lot of transformational leadership behaviors or rather embrace transformational leadership style. From the results, transformational leadership could have greater effects on employee productivity
