The Leadership Style and the Quality of Working Life of Staffs (Islamic Azad Universities of Isfahan)

This paper aims at investigating into the impact of leadership styles on the quality of working life of Islamic Azad University of Isfahan staffs, The statistical population and sample of the study were 2113 and 325 persons respectively. The two standard questionnaires were 18 questions for leadership style and 38 questions for quality of work life, which confirmed the reliability and validity of the questionnaires. Regarding the purpose, the study is an applied work and is a survey research which its data collection has been carried out through the descriptive-analytical method. Various statistical techniques and methods such as Student’s T-Test, Factor Analysis, Logistic Regression, and Pearson and Kendall correlation coefficient were used in order to analyze the data of the study. The findings indicate that the more the administrators of the said university take the democratic leadership, the more the staffs’ quality of working life will be improved. Moreover, the democratic leadership style has positive impact on parameters such as team communication, work stress relief, organizational commitment, organizational partnership, organizational conflict reduction, support of administrators, support of colleagues, role clarity and delegation of authority. However, it had no impact on safe and healthy work environment as well as salary.