The Relationship between Management Style and Employees’ Well-Being: A Case of Non-Managerial Staffs

Abstract

This article examines the relationship between management style practiced by managers and employees’ well being in an international bank in Malaysia. This particular study examines the type of management style (autocratic, democratic, paternalistic and laissez faire) as measured by a customized questionnaire from two different sources [1], [2] in order to suit the purpose of this study. Employee's well being is being measured quantitatively through a set of customized questionnaire [3] on their physical, psychological and social health. A total of 47 respondents from the bank completed the given questionnaire. Result revealed that the branch manager practiced paternalistic management style. Besides that, employees working under managers are healthy physically, psychologically, and socially. In addition, there is a rather weak but positive relationship between paternalistic style with physical and psychological health.