The relationship of employees in the automotive sector on the leadership types and the relationship between the job satisfaction

It is known that leadership styles have effect on personnel's and overall performance of the organization. This study was designed to research the effects of employee's autocratic, democratic and humanistic leadership styles on their job satisfaction. Job satisfaction and leadership styles have been theoretically covered in the study and a survey have been executed for this end. Two scales were employed in the study to have primary research data. The intrinsic, extrinsic and general dimensions of job satisfaction were measured by means of Multifactor Minnesota Job Satisfaction Scale. Multi Factor Leadership Scale was used to measure autocratic, democratic and humanist leadership styles. Data was gathered from a randomly chosen sample of automotive sector employees in İstanbul for the field survey. It was analyzed using quantitative parametric statistical techniques. Pearson correlation, multiple regression, independent samples t-test and one-way ANOVA were used for this purpose. According to the findings of the study; intrinsic, extrinsic and general job satisfaction are moderately and positively related to democratic leadership style perception. Intrinsic, extrinsic and general job satisfaction are weakly and positively related to humanistic leadership style perception. Humanistic leadership style perception has a positive and weak determinative effect on intrinsic, extrinsic and general job satisfaction. Humanistic leadership style meaningfully differs according to gender. Autocratic leadership style perception meaningfully differs according to intrinsic job satisfaction, extrinsic job satisfaction, general job satisfaction, level of education, duration of experience in sector, company and, experience with manager.