Abstract:

It is known that their leadership styles have an impact on employees. With regard to the Turkish culture, paternalist leadership style is also expected to influence employees’ job satisfaction and performance. Therefore, the purpose of the study is to reveal the impact of paternalist leadership style on the employee’s job satisfaction and performance. In this context, a survey was conducted on 149 researchers who worked in universities founded after 2006. The data is analyzed through the SPSS program. The analysis of the data used factor, correlation and regression analysis. The research finds that paternalist leadership style affects the employee’s work satisfaction and performance in a meaningful and positive direction. However, paternalist leadership dimensions have found that the expectation of loyalty and satisfaction from the family environment has more impact on the internal work satisfaction; the low dimension of interest in employees has more impact on the external work satisfaction. Although the family environment and loyalty and satisfaction expectations have a meaningful and positive impact on the performance, the employees have found that the low dimension of interest has not affected the performance.