The article presents the results of an empirical study aimed at analyzing the relationship of employee satisfaction with the professional type of manager and assessing the possibility of implementing motives. The relationship of motivational expectations, employee satisfaction with the professional type of managers was not investigated in the works of either domestic or foreign authors. The hypothesis that the level of satisfaction with the work of employees is associated with the type of personality of the leader and his assessment of the possibility of implementing the motives of employees was partially confirmed. According to the data obtained, the professional type of manager does not directly affect the degree of satisfaction with the work of employees. Moreover, satisfaction indicators are associated with a difference in the estimates of the possibility of realization of motives, that is, the closer and higher the estimates of the possibility of realization of the motives of employees and managers, the h