Impact of Supervisory Leadership Style on Employee Level of Stress in Sri Lankan Healthcare Sector

Abstract

The concept of leadership has received increasing attention in recent years, both from academics and practitioners. Hence the research question focused in the study was: What is the impact of supervisory leadership styles on employee job related stress level? Through the study it was revealed that there is an impact of supervisory leadership style on employee job related stress level in healthcare sector. The study employed questionnaire based survey method. Respondents were selected using the convenience sampling technique and the sample size was limited to sixty employees out of the total population. The correlation between supervisory leadership style and job related stress was 0.313 at 95% confidence level indicating a moderate positive relationship between the two variables. Adjusted R Square revealed that the real impact of leadership style towards the employee level of stress is only 7.9% where the employee stresses greatly induced by other factors to 92.1%.