Leadership, personality, job satisfaction and job performance

The personality of leaders, the degree of satisfaction of the employees, the type of adopted leadership, the professional performance of the employees are concepts we frequently meet among the newest papers of the organizational psychology domain. In the present paper we unitary approach the relation between the four mentioned concepts on a single sample of subjects (managers and employees in retail business). The present study was guided by the following objectives: 1. Identifying the type of leader who generates the job satisfaction among his employees; 2. Identifying the relation between facets of leadership and personality features of the leader; 3. Correlating the leadership styles with the degree of professional performance. (C) 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.