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“Carrot and stick” leadership style

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  • Kwasi Dartey-Baah
  • Emmanuel Ampofo

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Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to examine the relevance of “carrot and stick” (transactional) leadership style in predicting employees’ job satisfaction in a modern business organization. Design/methodology/approach - The study was cross-sectional in nature and made use of structured questionnaire to collect data. Stratified and simple random sampling techniques were used to select the respondents. In total, 215 questionnaires were returned by respondents out of the 220 administered. Taylor and Bowers (1974) overall job satisfaction questionnaire and Bass and Avolio (2004) multifactor leadership questionnaire, were used to measure job satisfaction (α=0.812) and transactional leadership style (α=0.761), respectively. Simple linear regression was also used to predict the relationship between the constructs. Findings - Results indicated significant and positive relationship between managers transactional leadership style and employees overall job satisfaction (β=0.292,p

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  • Kwasi Dartey-Baah & Emmanuel Ampofo, 2016. "“Carrot and stick” leadership style," African Journal of Economic and Management Studies, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 7(3), pages 328-345, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:eme:ajemsp:v:7:y:2016:i:3:p:328-345
    DOI: 10.1108/AJEMS-04-2014-0029
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