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.
This study examined leadership style as a predictor of career readiness among a sample of (N = 281) students from two early college high schools from the Rio Grande Valley in South Texas. Participants included 165 females and 116 males ranging from 14 to 19 years of age and 96.8% identified as Hispanic. Participants provided demographic information and reported their own leadership style using the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ 5x) as well as their career readiness using the Employability Skills Inventory (ESI). Additionally, pre-existing district Texas Success Initiative (TSI) data was used to identify college readiness in Reading, Writing, and Math.The results indicated that college readiness, dual enrollment, year in school and gender predicted some of the dimensions of career readiness, but leadership style emerged as a significant predictor of all eight dimensions of career readiness. K E Y W O R D Scareer readiness, leadership style, transformational leadership Because of the rapidly changing technology and advances in communication that have transformed the world into a global community, today's workplace environment requires highly skilled and prepared workers. Many organizations consider the career readiness of their newly hired employees as key components to success. For employers accepting entry-level workers, many of whom may have just completed high school or college, the need to ensure that these future employees are equipped with specific competencies remains critical. These young people entering the workplace must not only show mastery of core academic skills such as reading, writing, and mathematics, but must also be ready to work in teams, dominate various technologies, solve problems, think critically, and possess self-management skills.Numerous individuals, groups, and organizations have worked with industry leaders to identify employability skills that prove critical to employee success. In 1990, the United States Department of Labor organized a committee initiated by the former Secretary of Labor, Lynn Martin, to conduct a comprehensive study on how well schools were preparing young people for the workforce. This was the first time that businesses were given a platform to communicate to educators what students needed to know to be successful in the workplace (Alston, Cromartie, Wakefield, & 476
One of the newest theories to gain widespread interest is authentic leadership. Part of the rationale for developing a model and subsequent instrument to measure authentic leadership was a concern that the more popular theory, the full range model of leadership and its instrument, the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ) (Bass & Avolio, 1985), did not sufficiently emphasize aspects of leader emotional intelligence (EI), such as self-awareness .In its current configuration, the Authentic Leadership Questionnaire (ALQ) (Walumba, Avolio, Gardner, Wernsing & Peterson, 2008) Banks, McCauley, Davis, Gardner, and Guler (2016) found that, overall, authentic leadership is highly correlated with transformational leadership (k = 23, N = 5,414, rho = .72 (k = 47, N = 4,994, rho = .56) measures four dimensions of leadership: relational transparency, internal moral perspective, balanced processing, and self-awareness. In a recent meta-analysis of authentic leadership, . Given that a) EI is strongly related to transformational leadership, b) authentic leadership is very strongly related to transformational leadership, and c) part of the original rationale for creating a model and instrument to measure authentic leadership included a need to include more self-awareness in a leadership model, exploring the degree to which emotional intelligence is related to authentic leadership is important.In this study, 1,028 working adults completed the Schutte Self-Report Emotional Intelligence Test (SSEIT) (Schutte, 2009) and the Authentic Leadership Questionnaire (Walumba et al., 2008
Keywords: authentic leadership, leader gender, follower gender esearch on ways in which male and female leaders differ has been ongoing for decades. In a seminal meta-analytic study, Eagly (2003), for example, found that female leaders were rated more transformational than male leaders. Male leaders, on the other hand, were rated higher on the transactional behaviors of management-by-exception active, and the passive avoidant behaviors of management by exception passive and laissez-faire.An important moderator variable analyzed in several gender and leadership studies has been the gender of the follower. Paustian-Underdahl, Walker and Woehr (2014), for example, meta-analyzed 99 effect sizes for leader effectiveness. When all leadership contexts were considered, men and women did not differ in perceived leadership effectiveness. However, when the leaders were rated by a majority of female followers, female leaders were rated more effective than male leaders. The difference became R
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