THE EFFECT OF LEADERSHIP STYLES ON EMPLOYEE JOB SATISFACTION IN CO-OPERATIVE BANK (CB Bank)

This study intends to investigate leadership styles (transformational and transactional) and employee job satisfaction in Co-operative Bank. The principal objective of the take a look at is to have a look at consequences of leadership style on employee activity satisfaction. Independent variable is leadership style including transformational and transactional leadership styles, and job satisfaction is dependent variable. In order to obtain this objective in the study, the primary data was collected, 90 respondents in Co-operative Bank (Head Office) by using structure questionnaire. This study used descriptive statistic, correlation and regression analysis. In total participants in the research, 24 staffs are male and the rest of 66 staffs are female. In the questionnaire, there have two separate instruments, namely multifactor leadership questionnaire (MLQ) and job satisfaction questionnaire (JSQ), were used to measure leadership styles and employee‟s satisfaction respectively. This primary data is collected 2019, July, between 10th and 15th. According to the survey, this is found that leaders of Co-operative Bank mostly used the transformational leadership style and the employees are moderately satisfied to their work. According to regression analysis, transformational leadership style highest positively contributes to employees‟ job satisfaction and significant at 1% level. Therefore, leaders of Co-operative Bank should maintain their using transformational leadership style by training and experience