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Item Impact of Leadership Styles on Psychological Contracts of Employees in a Large Scale Manufacturing Industry(Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Perera, A.N.R.; Dammika, K.A.S.Globalization is highly influence to all over the world. As a result of that competition between the industries are increasing. Leadership needs to accomplish the goals which are matching with the competitive environment and motivating the grass route employees. To achieve the results psychological contract of employee is very important. The main problem is identifying the most suitable leadership style which can influence on psychological contracts of employees. The independent variable was leadership style and dependent was psychological contracts of employees. This was mainly focused about the transformational and transactional leadership styles. And also main psychological contract are relational and transactional. Purpose of this study is to assess the leadership styles of managers, to assess the level of psychological contract of employees, examine the relationship between leadership styles of managers and level of psychological contract of employees, and assess the impact of leadership styles on psychological contract of employees. The target population was operational level employees. The sample size was 100. The primary data gathering was done via two standard questionnaires. Namely, multifactor leadership questionnaire & psychological contract questionnaire. Descriptive analysis and linear multiple regression were used to analyze. This is very important study for the leaders of large scale manufacturing industries to identify the most important leadership styles which match with the employee psychological contract and build the sustainable competitive strategies in their organization to face the drastic changes in business environment.Item Impact of Leadership Style on Employees’ Job Satisfaction: A Case of Bank of Ceylon - Head Office(Department of Human Resource Management, Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, 2015) Wickramasinghe, P.N.N.; Padmasiri, M.K.D.Acquiring and preserving talent is the most vital challenge facing the banking industry. In order to gain the competitive advantage through those employees their performance should be efficient and effective. Accordingly, for that purpose they should be well satisfied. Leadership style is a major determinant of employees’ job satisfaction. Therefore the purpose of this study was to examine the relationship and the impact between leadership styles and job satisfaction among junior executive officers in Bank of Ceylon Head Office, Sri Lanka. A sample of 65 junior executive officers working in Bank of Ceylon Head Office was obtained to participate in this study. The studied leadership styles are transactional and transformational leadership while job satisfaction includes extrinsic and intrinsic job satisfaction. The findings of the study shows that there is a positive and moderate relationship of 40.4% between leadership style and job satisfaction, and transformational leadership and job satisfaction also had a 48.5% of positive and moderate relationship, while transactional leadership and job satisfaction had a strong negative relationship. But the overall impact of leadership and job satisfaction had only 16%, a small impact. And transformational leadership had 24% impact on job satisfaction. Therefore from this study Bank of Ceylon can maximize their profits upon choosing the transformational leadership style as the appropriate leadership style.