Relationship between perceived leadership behavior of managers and employee satisfaction in the auto industry of Iran

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between perceived manager's leadership and employees job satisfaction in the Iranian auto industry.; It was hypothesized that job satisfaction of middle supervisors and managers of Iranian auto industry was not significantly related to their supervisor's consideration and initiating structure leadership behavior.; The Leader Behavior Description Questionnaire - Form XII and the Job Descriptive Index (JDI) were administered among 120 middle managers who reported directly to one of the members of the board of directors or director of the main production departments.; The LBDQ - XII was used to measure leadership style of behavior. The JDI was used to assess job satisfaction with five basic aspects of a person's job (work, promotion, pay, supervision, co-workers and job in general). A demographic sheet was attached to questionnaires which were translated from English into Persian for usage together with the above two questionnaires. Out of 120 respondents 57.6% had bachelor or higher degree of education. Fifty percent of these respondents were between the ages of 41 and 50, most were married and all were male. 64.4% were managers and 73% supervised zero to fifty employees.; Stepwise multiple regression analysis were computed to test the relationships of the four satisfaction subscales to each of the two criterion variables. First consideration, second initiating structure, third consideration and initiating structure together.; Arithmetically higher means were obtained with initiating structure leadership behavior than consideration leadership behavior for all participants. The most meaningful significance occurred when consideration leadership behavior was a predictor of satisfaction with supervision among all respondents pooled together. Consideration and initiating structure were shown to be significant predictors of satisfaction with job in general together among all respondents. The result of correlation matrices showed that consideration and initiating structure were positively and significantly correlated with each other and with satisfaction with supervision for all respondents.