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.

Keywords

• goal setting
• team building
• managerial competencies
• job satisfaction