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To achieve job satisfaction among employees is the focal point of most organizations. It is because the issue of employee’s job satisfaction has been long debated due to its subjectivity. Therefore, an attempt has been made to identify the relationship between transformational leadership style and employees’ job satisfaction at Jabatan Pendidikan Negeri Johor. The respondents were collected from 97 respondents using questionnaire survey. The respondents will be selected using probability stratified sampling technique and was analyzed using correlation analysis. The results indicate that transformational leadership style is significant to predict employees’ job satisfaction.
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