The Mediator Role of Managers’ Leadership Style in the Relationship between Inter-Organizational Communication Strategy and Job Satisfaction in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)

The aim of present paper is to study the relations between inter-organizational communications strategy, managers’ leadership style, and employees’ job satisfaction in SMEs. Its population consists of managers and employees in Kerman SMEs and the sample size is 171 managers and 310 employees who were selected by simple random sampling and Kokaran formula. Data collection tool was a standard questionnaire. Cronbach’s alpha ratio was used to show its reliability. To gather information, library and field studies were also used. In terms of aim, present study is an applied research while it is a descriptive and correlation study in terms of how to collect needed data. To analyze questionnaire data, Kolgoromov – Smirnov test as well as confirmatory factor analysis in SPSS and LISREL software packages were used in deductive statistics section. The findings indicate the mediating role of managers’ leadership style in the relationship between inter-organizational communication strategy and employees’ job satisfaction of Kerman SMEs is supported.