Maria Veronica, Lidya2012-11-262012-11-262012-11-26Arbi Sahurihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/682Work satisfaction needs endorsement from many factors, and the most important endorsement is leadership. To reach a good achievement in organization always needs job satisfaction. In this case, leadership has important role. The more appropiate the style of leadership which is done with the situation and condition is, the more effective motivation which is needed for the employee to get good achievement. This research is aimed to study empirically the effect of leadership style which includes telling, selling, participating, and delegating, to job satisfaction. The mark being researched is frontliner employee, which respondents are taked from the employee of Hypermart Pekanbaru. The result of this research shows that simultaneous sub variables of leadership style have significant effect to job satisfaction. The effect of leadership style to work satisfaction is 0.644 or 41,5 percent with significance level of 0.000.otherleadership stylejob satisfactionleadershiphuman resource managementArticle