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Volume/Issue/Review Month Vol. - V | Issue I | Jan
Title Managerial Competencies and the Mediating Role of Leadership Style for Improving Job Satisfaction
Authors Sunil Misra
Broad area Managerial Competencies and the Mediating Role of Leadership Style for Improving Job Satisfaction
Abstract
This paper makes an endeavor to examine the limit job satisfaction
concomitance with certain managerial competencies. Managerial competencies
like goal setting and team building are taken as independent variables, where
as leadership style is mediating variable and job satisfaction as dependent
measures. The data were collected from 307 executives of banking sector in
West Bengal, India. The data were analyzed using Statistical Package for
Social Sciences (SPSS) version 15.0. The analyses of the same were carried
out using correlation and multiple regressions analysis techniques. The results
revealed that these managerial competencies had significantly predicted job
satisfaction indicating their positive association with satisfaction. It was also
found that the appropriate leadership style had significantly mediated the
relationship of managerial competencies and job satisfaction. The findings
tried to establish that the management should adopt transformational style of
leadership to facilitate better performance, where the managers can use these
competencies to enhance performance and a higher level of job satisfaction.
DOI The concept of competence has a wide and non-specified meaning (Hall, 1980) and the term itself has an ‘open’ characteristic. According to Spencer and Spencer (1993) a competence is an underlying characteristic of an individual that is causally relate
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