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Leading Techies: Assessing Project Leadership Styles Most Significantly Related to Software Developer Job Satisfaction

Leading Techies: Assessing Project Leadership Styles Most Significantly Related to Software Developer Job Satisfaction

Steven Westlund
Copyright: © 2013 |Pages: 16
ISBN13: 9781466626485|ISBN10: 1466626488|EISBN13: 9781466626799
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-2648-5.ch014
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Westlund, Steven. "Leading Techies: Assessing Project Leadership Styles Most Significantly Related to Software Developer Job Satisfaction." Enhancing the Modern Organization through Information Technology Professionals: Research, Studies, and Techniques, edited by Ricardo Colomo-Palacios, IGI Global, 2013, pp. 200-215. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-2648-5.ch014

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Westlund, S. (2013). Leading Techies: Assessing Project Leadership Styles Most Significantly Related to Software Developer Job Satisfaction. In R. Colomo-Palacios (Ed.), Enhancing the Modern Organization through Information Technology Professionals: Research, Studies, and Techniques (pp. 200-215). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-2648-5.ch014

Chicago

Westlund, Steven. "Leading Techies: Assessing Project Leadership Styles Most Significantly Related to Software Developer Job Satisfaction." In Enhancing the Modern Organization through Information Technology Professionals: Research, Studies, and Techniques, edited by Ricardo Colomo-Palacios, 200-215. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2013. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-2648-5.ch014

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Abstract

The leadership behavior of the immediate supervisor is found to contribute to subordinate job satisfaction and organizational commitment. The purpose of this study is to assess leadership styles that are significantly correlated with software developer job satisfaction. The participants were software developers from 24 organizations in higher education, consulting, defense contracting, and local government. Correlations were assessed through multiple linear regressions. The results indicate a significant predicting relationship between project manager leadership styles and software developer job satisfaction. Contingent-reward, active management-by-exception, and laissez-faire leadership styles are found to be significantly related to overall job satisfaction when controlling the effects of the other independent variables. Implications of these findings are discussed along with recommendations for IT professionals and researchers.

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