The relationship between leadership practices and job satisfaction: A survey analysis of National Aeronautics and Space Administration employees at the Langley Research Center

The primary purpose of this quantitative research study was to investigate the relationship between leadership practices and job satisfaction and to determine whether the demographics gender, education, and tenure impacted that relationship. The target population consisted of randomly selected non-supervisory employees who evaluated their first level supervisors. Kouzes and Posner's Leadership Practices Inventory and Spector's Job Satisfaction Survey were the measurement instruments that were combined to create a Zoomerang online electronic survey methodology. Pearson's Moment Correlation and Analysis of Variance were the statistical tests that were applied. The findings indicated that there was a moderate statistically significant positive relationship between leadership practices and job satisfaction and that there are no statistically significant differences based on the demographics gender, education, or tenure when the tests are applied to Job Satisfaction and Leadership Practices at the overall scale levels. This study also discovered there that different correlational and statistically significant results would be achieved if Leadership Practices and Job Satisfaction were analyzed at the subscale level.