Relationship between leadership styles and job satisfaction among physical education organizations employees

Organizations are social systems where human resources are the most important factors for effectiveness and efficiency. Organizations need effective managers and employees to achieve their objectives. Leadership is defined as the ability to influence a group towards the achievement of goals. Leadership is a process by which a person influences others to accomplish an objective and directs the organization in a way that makes it more cohesive and coherent. Thus, the purpose of this research was to examine the relationship between leadership styles and job satisfaction among physical education organization employees in Isfahan. For this purpose, a total of 125 employees in physical education organization from Isfahan participated in this research. To data collection, all employees filled in Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire and job satisfaction Questionnaire. Results showed that the positive correlation between overall leadership styles and job satisfaction was significant at the level of P<0.05. Also, the correlations between leadership styles sub-scales such as transactional leadership, transformational leadership and passive/avoidant leadership and job satisfaction was significant at the level of P<0.05. Based on these results, among determinants of job satisfaction, leadership is viewed as an important predictor and plays a central role. Leadership is a management function, which is mostly directed towards people and social interaction, as well as the process of influencing people so that they will achieve the goals of the organization.