The impact of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) leadership style on the profitability of an organization has been a major concern of much academic research work in the past. However, there seems to be no consensus on this issue. It is generally believed that leaders influence organizational performance through those they lead. Therefore, employee job satisfaction is hypothesized to have a mediating effect on the relationship between the CEO leadership style and the profitability of an organization. This study, conducted among 136 employees of 17 finance companies in Nepal during December 2013, found a very weak relationship between the CEO leadership style and the profitability of an organization. The study also refuted the mediating effect of job satisfaction on the relationship between the CEO leadership style and the profitability of an organization. The findings support the contextualists view on the leadership-performance debate. The probable reasons and implications of the findings are discussed.

This study examines the relationship between college culture and student satisfaction. It also examines the order of strength of relationship of college culture dimensions as perceived by students with student satisfaction. The study was conducted among 251 BBA students of various colleges located within Kathmandu and Lalitpur districts of Nepal using Denison Organizational Culture Survey Model. We measured student satisfaction using the questionnaire adopted from Hartman and Schmidt (1995) and Silva and Fernandes (2012). Our results indicated that college culture dimensionsinvolvement, adaptability, and consistency -related significantly to student satisfaction and the strength of relationship followed the order: involvement, adaptability and consistency.