Servant Leadership and Employee's Job Satisfaction

This study aimed at "Investigation of employee’s perception of servant leadership of the organization and it’s relationship with the job satisfaction of the employees in Bank Melli Arak branch". For this purpose, 91 employees were selected from the Bank Melli Arak branch by stratified random sampling. The data were collected using OLA instrument and a job satisfaction questionnaire validated for bank employees. The data were analyzed using Pearson correlation, t-test, stepwise multi-regression and one-way ANOVA. The findings showed that servant leadership in Bank Melli Arak branch and the employee’s job satisfaction were both above the mean and satisfactory. there was significant positive correlation between servant leadership of the organization and employee’s job satisfaction(r = 0.58, p < 0.01). Stepwise regression analysis indicated that among the factors of servant leadership, provision of leadership was the strongest predictor of employees’ job satisfaction and could predict %35 of the variance related to employee’s job satisfaction (F=49.31, p<0.01). Also, in assessing the characteristics of servant leadership and employee’s job satisfaction, there was no significant difference in age and academic level.