Autocratic Leadership Style and Job Satisfaction
Autocratic leadership is characterized as a leadership style that prioritizes personal
dominance, strong central authority, staff control, and unwavering allegiance. Authoritarian
leadership is regarded as a source of workplace stress. This type of leadership can produce a
variety of stress reactions in people and have a detrimental impact on job satisfaction.
Employees may be more likely to engage in deviant behavior in the workplace if they are
under stress or have low job satisfaction (Qi, Liu, & Mao, 2020).
Alanoglu and Karabatak (2020) conducted research in Turkey on “the mediating impact
of job satisfaction, as well as the relationship between job satisfaction and teachers'
organizational behavior.” The study was held in Elazig, one of Turkey's eastern districts.
To obtain the opinions of the teachers, they used random sampling procedures. Only 312
of the 500 surveys that were issued to all of Elazig's general secondary schools were
returned. The causal linkages were tested using structural equation modeling (SEM).
Autocratic leadership style had a negative and mediating effect on organizational
perspective but did not affect job satisfaction, according to the findings. According to
Basaran and Guclu (2018), there is no substantial association between autocratic
leadership and job satisfaction. While teachers' job satisfaction levels are positively
changed when they regard the leadership style positively, the autocratic leader's behavior
does not affect the teachers' job satisfaction (Alanoglu & Karabatak, 2020).
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The research was done by Mohammad, Mahfuzur, and Omar (2019) that investigated how
leadership styles affect employee job performance in the Bangladeshi mobile
telecommunications business. The data was collected by 118 employees from the mobile
telecommunications industry. The self-administered surveys were designed using a 5-
point Likert scale. Employee performance was harmed by the autocratic leadership style,
according to the findings of the study. Employees are dissatisfied with their jobs when
autocratic leaders use order and procedures, rewards, and punishments to manage them.
However, there were a few minor flaws in this research. The research was conducted in
Bangladesh's mobile telecommunications business, where top management decisions were
typically made, and middle management decisions were only enforced by cascading down
to the lower levels. Furthermore, while the data suggest a negative association between
