EFFECTIVENESS OF LEADERSHIP STYLE ON JOB SATISFACTION (A CASE STUDY OFAMINU KANO TEACHING HOSPITAL, AKTH KANO STATE

ABSTRACT Leadership style is a social influence process in which the leader seeks the voluntary participation of subordinate in an effort to reach organizational goals. Therefore, the basic purpose of a good leader is to improve performance and productivity by imparting knowledge, changing attitudes or increasing skills. Consequently, these papers examine effectiveness of leadership styles on Job Satisfaction in Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital AKTH Kano State, Nigeria. Descriptive Survey research design was used, based on these three predictors such as Transactional leadership style, transformational leadership style and situational leadership style were identified and tested toward Job Satisfaction as the dependent variable. A Sample size of 99 respondent were captured from the staff of AKTH out of the Population of 60,161 Staff through Taro Yamani (1967) formula of sample size determination. Non probability sampling technique was used that involved convenience sampling technique and data were obtained through a structured close-ended questionnaire. Reliability test was used. Descriptive statistics that report the respondents profile was captured and inferential statistic that involve multiple regression analysis was used to test hypotheses of the study, using SPSS version 22. The results shows that two (2) independent variables out of three (3) impacted on the non-directional null hypothesis raised. Therefore, (H2) and hypothesis (H3) were not supported, while the remaining one (1) hypotheses H1 was supported.