Relationship between Leadership Styles, Organizational Politics and Job Satisfaction among Telecom Employees

Abstract

The present study was seeking to explore the relationship between leadership styles, organizational politics, and job satisfaction among telecom employees. 153 participants were taken based on G-Power, comprising of 42 employees of Government sector, 84 employees from Private sector and 27 employees from Semi-Government sector were obtained. It was hypothesized that perception of organizational politics and leadership styles predicted job satisfaction among telecom employees. Also, it was hypothesized that there is a positive relationship between Organizational politics, Leadership Styles and Job Satisfaction among telecom employees. Moreover, a negative relationship between Organizational politics, Leadership Styles and Job satisfaction among telecom employees was also hypothesized. The major objective of this study was to explore the relationship between the study variables (leadership styles, organizational politics, and job satisfaction), evaluate the influence of family system and investigate the impact of leadership styles and organizational politics on job satisfaction. For evaluating organizational politics Perceptions of Organizational Politics Scale (Pops) developed by Michele Kacmar (1991) was utilized, for measuring Job satisfaction scale developed by Paul Spector (1997), Job Satisfaction Survey (JSS) was applied and for evaluating leadership styles, Leadership Style Questionnaire (LSQ) developed by Alex Opoku (2015) was applied. Henceforth, the conclusions of this study indicated significantly positive relationship between Leadership Styles (transformational leadership style, democratic leadership style, autocratic leadership style, transactional leadership style, laissez fair leadership style, and strategic leadership style) and Organizational Politics, which acted as the predictor of job satisfaction among telecom employees. It was seen that Job Satisfaction was significantly negatively correlated with perception of organizational politics, general political behavior, go along to get ahead,