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Purpose: The purpose of this study is to explore the impact of leadership styles and organizational culture on job satisfaction of employees in Malaysian manufacturing industry.
Design/methodology/approach: The researcher conducted the study via structured questionnaire with a sample size of 127 employees from Malaysian manufacturing industry employees. The data analysis was done via SPSS (or commonly known as Statistical Package for the Social Sciences), IBM SPSS Statistics 23. The data analysis meant to conduct demographic profile of respondents and mean of variables, factor analysis to test the goodness of data, reliability analysis to measure the repeatability of measuring instrument and regression analysis for hypothesis testing of independent and moderating variables.
Findings: Results showed that both leadership styles have a positive significant impact on employee job satisfaction. Supportive culture moderates the relationship between transactional leadership and employee job satisfaction. While, bureaucratic and innovative culture was not a significant moderator.
Research limitations/implications: The study is limited to Malaysian manufacturing employees in Penang.
Practical implications: This study provides a strategy for management team to increase employee job satisfaction and reduce employee turnover rate.
Originality/value: This study extends the understanding of the impact of transactional and transformational leadership styles employees' job satisfaction, with organizational culture as a moderator of relationship between these two variables. The researcher proposed a model to study the moderating effect and the impact on job satisfaction in Malaysian manufacturing industry. Findings intend to broaden knowledge of academician pertaining employee job satisfaction.
Keywords: Transformational Leadership, Transactional Leadership, Organizational Culture, Supportive Culture, Innovative Culture, Bureaucratic Culture, Job Satisfaction
Introduction
This research focuses on the employee job satisfaction in manufacturing industry and its influencing factors. The manufacturing industry is the growth substance for Malaysia, which currently the entire manufacturing industries in Malaysia are facing a turbulence due to the fastmoving pace of the competitive environment. Productivity of Malaysia's economic development is to be linked with the performance which seems to be a main contributor as per indicated in the Eleventh Malaysia Plan. Which, the path towards achievement the productivity is not easy. With the high demands due to the competitive environment, employees of the manufacturing firms to be pushed to work extra miles, loaded with work overload and longer working hours. This subsequently leads to high...