This study was concerned with the effect of the difference between the perceived and preferred styles of
leadership (DISSONANCE FACTOR) on the outcomes of a firm. What was discovered was that
production workers of high productivity and low absentee firms had small differences between their perceived
and desired styles of leadership (low dissonance factor) and the styles were identifiable as either autocratic
or democratic. It was also found that employees with a low dissonance factor also had a longer length of
service with the company than their colleagues with larger dissonance factors.
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