Leadership Styles And Job Satisfaction; A Case Study Of Kichwa Tembo Tented Camp, Kenya

ABSTRACT

This research is about "Leadership Style and Job Satisfaction, taking Kichwa Tembo

Tented Camp in Trans Mara District, Kenya as the study institution. It has been shown that

it is evident that there are several problems of leadership towards employees' job

satisfaction due to a series of employees predictor of deviant work related behaviors such

as absenteeism, late coming, labour turn over and leadership style. But leadership style has

of late been observed and has taken the fore front thus the reason for this research. The

general objective of this research was to determine the effect of leadership style on job

satisfaction as applied by mangers at Kichwa Tembo Tented Camp and thus led to the

paramount drive for this study.

The methodology of this study was purposive/ judgmental sample research design where

by the researcher analyzes the respondents views obtained from: both structured interviews,

questionnaires and documentary reviews. All these ensured maximum credibility and

validity of data collected. However, the researcher faced difficulty in approaching some of

the interviewees, while some respondents failed to fill in the set questionnaires as well as

difficulty in formulating mechanisms or scales for measuring the research variables.

Based on date analysis, both qualitative and quantitative methods were applied such as:qualitative

ratio scales of measurement, the ordinal scale and the ratio scale. For

quantitative methods the percentages was used to provide mean values of data and

summarize data.

This study has revealed that two types of leadership styles are employed in Kichwa Tembo

Tented Camp: the democratic style of leadership and the autocratic style of leadership. The

study has revealed that employees attitude towards leadership style is such that when the

leadership style tends towards being democratic, employee satisfaction tend to be high. This

study has also revealed that leadership style is related to job satisfaction in such a way that

the leadership style either increases or decreases employee job satisfaction. All departmental

heads need to be educated about how leadership styles influence employee results.