Abstract: The relationship between Supervisor Dominant Leadership Style and job satisfaction was investigated among 240 randomly selected non-managerial hospital personnel, between the ages of 20 – 65 years of age working in hospitals within the southern region of the United States. The Hersey’s perspective of the Situational Leadership® Model and Spector’s (1997) Job Satisfaction Scale were used in this investigation to obtain data for analysis. Results of the investigation revealed that the selling leadership style (S2 - 40%) and delegating leadership styles (S4 - 33.3%) were the dominant styles practiced by supervisors. However, multimodal leadership styles were also identified (S1S2S3, S2S3, and S2S4). Participants considered contingent reward the most important component of job satisfaction, while communications was considered the least. Sixty percent of the participants indicated their leader had a low level of adaptability (LAS < 24). Conversely, 10 percent reported that their leader had a high level of adaptability (LAS > 30); and 30 percent reported their leader had moderate adaptability (LAS ≥24≤30).
Keywords: Dominant Leadership Style, Job Satisfaction, Situational Leadership, Leadership Adaptability.
Title: The Relationship between Supervisor Dominant Leadership Style and Hospital Worker Job Satisfaction: Subordinate Perspective
Author: David Augustine Bull, PhD., DBA., M.Sc., MBA
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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