This study attempts to investigate the relationship of the leadership style of a principal as on independent variable with the job satisfaction level of teachers under his / her supervision as the dependent variable. Followings are the objectives of t...
This study attempts to investigate the relationship of the leadership style of a principal as on independent variable with the job satisfaction level of teachers under his / her supervision as the dependent variable. Followings are the objectives of this study in detail.
First, the leadership style of a principal recognized by teachers is analyzed.
Second, the job satisfaction level is measured and analyzed.
Third, the relationship between the two measurements above is analyzed.
For this purpose, the chosen target group for research was three hundred teachers who belonged to the public elementary schools at the Sea-dae-moon and Un-pyong Educational District of Seoul. The measurement instrument for the leadership of principals used is Noh Jong-hee's Leader Behavior Description Questionnaire (LBDQ-KOR) and the measurement instrument for job satisfaction levels used is K.T.O. (Korean Teacher Opinionnaire) developed by the Korean Federation over Teacher's Associations (KFTA) in 1982.
Data processing for the analysis is done using SPSS/PC+ for Social Science Statistical Techniques such as One-way analysis of varionce (One-way ANOVA), LSD estimation, Multiple Regression Analysis of Covariance, and product-moment Correlation Coefficient (PMR).
Findings from this study are as follows:
1. The result of analyzing leadership styles of principals recognized by teachers shows that the score in the administrative-systems domain and in the object-oriented domain decreased as compared with the study of Noh Gong-hee(1988). But on the other hand it increased in the human-oriented domain.
2. This study shows the bigger schools are, the more human-oriented the leadership styles of principals are.
3. The result of analysis on the teachers' job satisfaction shows that it is higher when the school is smaller in working-environment domain. But on the contrary it is higher when the school is bigger in the position level domain.
4. This study shows the teachers' job satisfaction level is higher between elder and experienced teachers than younger teachers. And it shows the younger teachers take a serious view in expertise-expending domain.
5. This study shows the teacher's job satisfaction level is higher when the principal is human-oriented. On the other hand when the principal is administration-oriented the teachers are good at administrative-systems.
6. The result of analysis on the teachers' job satistaction level shows it earned the highest scores in reward domain, next in human-oriented domain, the lowest scores in administrative-systems domain. So this study shows other factors are more important than the principals' leadership style on increasing teachers' job satisfaction level.