THE INFLUENCE OF LEADERSHIP BEHAVIOURS BASED ON THE PATH-GOAL THEORY TOWARDS EMPLOYEES' SATISFACTION IN THE TELECOMMUNICATION SECTOR IN N'DJAMENA, CHAD

THE INFLUENCE OF LEADERSHIP BEHAVIOURS BASED ON THE PATH-GOAL THEORY TOWARDS EMPLOYEES' SATISFACTION IN THE TELECOMMUNICATION SECTOR IN N'DJAMENA, CHAD
Author: HADJE AKHAYE IDRISS DOKONY (TP045138)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2019
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The concept of employees' job satisfaction has been momentous throughout these past years to the development and accomplishment of organizations' goals and objectives. Moreover, the telecom industry has an important role to play in the underpinning of a country's economy. The aim of this study was to investigate and a clearer view of the level of relationships that exist between the four Leadership behaviours as to be Supportive, Directive, Participative and Achievement-Oriented was satisfaction of employees in the Telecom companies; Tigo Chad and Airtel Chad in N'Djamena. To measure these relationships, deductive research based on survey has been conducted. A sample size of 100 respondents has been taken for the research, and primary data collected through Internet from the participants, using cross-sectional Time Horizon; and analysed using SPSS. The results showed a positive relationship between Supportive, Directive, Participative and Achievement-Oriented leadership with employees' satisfaction, while directive leadership behaviour has been shown to be less significant to the employees' satisfaction in the Telecom industry. The findings have also significantly contributed to the advancement of knowledge in employee performance. The paper's primary contribution is that it provides an understanding that most effective leadership style in a large business organization in a third world economy.

How to Choose a Leadership Pattern

How to Choose a Leadership Pattern
Author: Robert Tannenbaum
Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
Total Pages: 80
Release: 2009-09-04
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1633691403

You're the boss: Should you call all the shots? Pick a course of action, then "sell" your idea to employees? Gather input from subordinates but make final decisions yourself? Let your group solve problems? Each approach has its advantages and disadvantages. How to Choose a Leadership Pattern offers strategies for selecting the best approach-depending on considerations such as your values, your subordinates' abilities, and the situation (including the degree of time pressure you're under). Since 1922, Harvard Business Review has been a leading source of breakthrough ideas in management practice. The Harvard Business Review Classics series now offers you the opportunity to make these seminal pieces a part of your permanent management library. Each highly readable volume contains a groundbreaking idea that continues to shape best practices and inspire countless managers around the world.

Work Engagement

Work Engagement
Author: Arnold B. Bakker
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2010-04-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1136980881

This book provides the most thorough view available on this new and intriguing dimension of workplace psychology, which is the basis of fulfilling, productive work. The book begins by defining work engagement, which has been described as ‘an opposite to burnout,’ following its development into a more complex concept with far reaching implications for work-life. The chapters discuss the sources of work engagement, emphasizing the importance of leadership, organizational structures, and human resource management as factors that may operate to either enhance or inhibit employee’s experience of work. The book considers the implications of work engagement for both the individual employee and the organization as a whole. To address readers’ practical questions, the book provides in-depth coverage of interventions that can enhance employees’ work engagement and improve management techniques. Based upon the most up-to-date research by the foremost experts in the world, this volume brings together the best knowledge available on work engagement, and will be of great use to academic researchers, upper level students of work and organizational psychology as well as management consultants.