1. ABSTRACT
THE EFFECTS OF PERCEIVED LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT STYLES OF
MANAGERS ON THE JOB SATISFACTION LEVELS OF EMPLOYEES’
İbrahim KAYAPINAR
Master Thesis, Psychology Department
Thesis Advisor: Assist. Prof. Dr. Levent Önen
June, 2007, 158 Pages
In this research, the effects of perceived leadership and management styles of
managers on the job satisfaction levels of employees’ was investigated. In order to find the
perceived leadership and management styles of managers, Ekvall and Arvonen Leadership
Questionnaire, and for measuring the job satisfaction level of workers The Minnesota Job
Satisfaction Inventory has been applied.
The Leadership Questionnaire has been prepared for measuring leadership and
management styles in terms of multi factors by Ekvall and Arvonen in 1991. The
Questionnaire is composed of 36 items with a 5 Likert type of scale and shows 3 general
leadership categories (Ekvall and Arvonen, 1999:244-245; Kornor ve Nordvic, 2004:49-54;
Tenglimoglu, 2005a:31, 2005b:8). Its’ translation into Turkish has been made and used the
researches by Dilaver Tengilimoglu in 2005 (Tenglimoglu, 2005a:23-45, 2005b:1-16).
The Minnesota Job Satisfaction Inventory has made by Weiss, Davis, England and
Lofquist in 1967 (Weiss, Dawis, England and Lofquist, 1967). Baycan is the one who
translates it into Turkish and made it’s validity and reliability works (Cronbach’s Alpha 0.77).
The Inventory had been used in the researches made by Baycan (1985), Oran (1989), Gorgun
(1985), Bayraktar (1996), Bodur and Guler (1996), Ataoglu, Icmeli and Ozcetin (2000),
Akdogan (2002), Ataca (2002), Hazar (2002), Ceylan and Uluturk (2006), Cam and the
others (2005), Demir and the others (2005) Keskin (2005), Kurcer (2005), Ozmen (2005),
Serinkan (2005) and Sanlı (2006) ( Cited in Akdogan, 2002:76-77; Ceylan and Uluturk,
2006:52; Cam and the others, 2005:215; Keskin, 2005; Kurcer, 2005:11; Ozmen, 2005:35 ;
Serinkan and Haybat, 2005 and Sanlı, 2006:49).

2. Özdayı, who used the improved Turkish form of the Questionnaire revised by Gokcora
and Gokcora, has used this form to 1134 person and found .86932, in 1991 it’s reliability. In
terms of the findings of researches the Questionnaire’s reliability has been found in a very
high level (Cited in Akdogan, 2002:76; Sanlı, 2006:49).
In this research Ekvall and Arvonen Leadership Questionnaire and The Minnesota Job
Satisfaction Inventory has been used for the same people. In this research the demographic
data taken by the same people has also been analyzed statistically.
As a result of the research, it has been found that employee, production and change
centered leadership styles had a meaningful effect on the job satisfaction level, but no
difference has been found among the different leadership styles.
Key words: The perceived management style, perceived leadership style, job
satisfaction, Ekvall and Arvonen Leadership Questionnaire and The Minnesota Job
Satisfaction Inventory.