Abstract:

This study was intended to establish the influence of leadership styles on job satisfaction. a case of NARO. The investigation was guided by the following objectives: to establish the influence of Autocratic leadership styles on employee job satisfaction, to assess the relationship between democratic leadership styles and employee job satisfaction intended to find out, using 76 respondents who participated in the research out of 109 purposively and random sampled from the NARO. The research was both qualitative, and quantitative, using interview, and questionnaire, method for a more comprehensive analysis. The study was nonexperimental in which researcher employed both descriptive survey cross sectional designs to assess how leadership influences, and sustains employee job satisfaction, because the design facilitates the appropriate description of the prevailing situation. Observation and interview schedule instruments were utilized, and the obtained data were analyzed SPSS program. Inferential statistics were drawn using spearman in which hypothesis was tested. It was concluded that Autocratic leadership style does not have a significant influence on job satisfaction (p=0.06) and democratic leadership has a significant on the job satisfaction of the staff of NARO (p=0.03). It was then recommended that the managerial staff should undertake training in management skills improvement to cater for gaps in leadership that have been observed by the staff and the staff should be motivated by considering salary increment through lobbying from the Ministry among others.