Impact of Leadership Styles on Employee Satisfaction in Higher Education of Pakistan

Abstract

The contemporary study was aimed to examine the effect of leadership styles on employee satisfaction in higher educational institutes of Islamabad Pakistan. This study was conducted considering six leadership styles, includingtransformational leadership style, transactional leadership style, and autocratic leadership style, coach leadership style, and humanrelation specialist and servant leadership style. The six different leadership styles and their effect on employee satisfaction are proving a positiveassociation and these leadership styles are increasing the overall employee performance. The study followed the quantitative approaches, to investigate the relationship of variables. Convenience sampling method was used to collect the data. The sample size was consisted of 200 respondents from higher educational institutes of Islamabad Pakistan.Finally, it was concluded that all six leadership styles are useful for the enhancement of employee satisfaction. At theend,results and discussion are proving the independent and dependent variables positive association, and it has been proved empirically and theoretically.