Author(s)

Yu Sun¹, Esther Gergen¹, Michelle Avila², Mark Green¹

¹Department of Leadership Study, Our Lady of the Lake University, San Antonio, TX, USA.
²Accounting Department, Our Lady of the Lake University, San Antonio, TX, USA.

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.

Job Satisfaction, Transformational Leadership, Charismatic Leadership, Maslow’s Hierarchy

Sun, Y. , Gergen, E. , Avila, M. and Green, M. (2016) Leadership and Job Satisfaction: Implications for Leaders of Accountants. American Journal of Industrial and Business Management, 6, 268-275. doi: 10.4236/ajibm.2016.63024.