IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/sae/globus/v25y2024i4p913-933.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Job Satisfaction and the Perception of Managers as Transformational Leaders: Examining the Role of Ethnicity and Other Demographic Characteristics of Employees in Multi-ethnic Teams

Author

Listed:
  • Christopher J. Darabant
  • Nandini Narayanan

Abstract

There is a lack of consensus regarding the impact of personal factors, such as ethnicity, on job satisfaction in employees working in multi-ethnic teams. Globalization has led to an increase in the heterogeneity in team members’ characteristics. Therefore, organizations are interested in identifying effective ways to manage such teams. Transformational leadership has been proven effective in managing teams to reach organizational goals. Accordingly, the present study aimed to examine the impact of ethnicity and other demographic characteristics on employees’ job satisfaction and their perception of their manager as a transformational leader. The sample comprised 115 mid-level employees from three US-based multinational technology firms. Data were collected using a questionnaire that included the Leadership Practices Inventory, the Job Satisfaction Survey, and items on participants’ demographic characteristics. Analysis included parametric or non-parametric statistics and correlations. Findings revealed a high job satisfaction level and a high tendency to perceive one’s manager as a transformational leader. No significant differences were observed based on demographic characteristics, while job satisfaction and perception of the manager as a transformational leader were correlated positively. These findings suggest that the transformational leadership style may be conducive to the effective management of heterogeneous groups.

Suggested Citation

  • Christopher J. Darabant & Nandini Narayanan, 2024. "Job Satisfaction and the Perception of Managers as Transformational Leaders: Examining the Role of Ethnicity and Other Demographic Characteristics of Employees in Multi-ethnic Teams," Global Business Review, International Management Institute, vol. 25(4), pages 913-933, August.
  • Handle: RePEc:sae:globus:v:25:y:2024:i:4:p:913-933
    DOI: 10.1177/0972150921999164
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0972150921999164
    Download Restriction: no

    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1177/0972150921999164?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:sae:globus:v:25:y:2024:i:4:p:913-933. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: SAGE Publications (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.imi.edu/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.