TITLE:
Leadership and Job Satisfaction: Implications for Leaders of Accountants
AUTHORS:
Yu Sun, Esther Gergen, Michelle Avila, Mark Green
KEYWORDS:
Job Satisfaction, Transformational Leadership, Charismatic Leadership, Maslow’s Hierarchy
JOURNAL NAME:
American Journal of Industrial and Business Management,
Vol.6 No.3,
March
22,
2016
ABSTRACT: This study conducted a review of the meta-analytic literature which correlated leadership and job satisfaction. Twenty-five meta-analytic correlations were extracted and analyzed in order to focus specifically on how leadership affected worker job satisfaction. Results indicated that charismatic and transformational leadership behaviors had the highest positive correlations with worker job satisfaction while non-contingent punishment and abusive supervision showed low negative relationships to worker job satisfaction. Implications to both overall job satisfaction and specific applications to satisfaction and attrition in the financial industry are discussed.