Narcissistic leadership practices, occupational stress and job satisfaction among employees of ministry of works and transport

Abstract

The study aimed at finding out the relationship between narcissistic leadership practices, occupational stress and job satisfaction. The study adopted a quantitative study design which was correlation in nature with a population of 60 employees. Simple random sampling technique was used to draw a sample of 52 respondents from the population. Data was collected from respondents using self-administered standard questionnaire and entered in the computer for analysis through Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) software version 23. Descriptive statistics showed that (71.2%) of the respondents were male and (28.8%) were male, majority were between 20-25 years (40.4%). Results from Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient (r) further indicated that narcissistic leadership practices positively influenced job satisfaction, (r=.736**, p=.000), however occupational stressed negatively influenced job satisfaction (r= -.351**, p=.000) as well as narcissistic leadership practices negatively influencing job satisfaction (r= -. 612**, p=.000). Therefore, the present study provides a basis and implications for further investigation on the influence of narcissistic leadership practices on occupational stress, occupational stress on job satisfaction, and narcissistic leadership practices on job satisfaction among employee of Ministry of Works. It was recommended that the management of Ministry of Works needs to do more by designing policies of reducing narcissistic leadership practices in order to reduce on occupational stress and promote job satisfaction among employees.