The article examines the effects of principals’ leadership style (transformational or transactional), principals’ decision-making strategy (autocratic versus participative), and teachers’occupation perceptions on teacher satisfaction from the job. More specifically, it attempts to find out how much of the variation in teachers’job satisfaction can be attributed to their perceptions of their occupation, as compared to their perceptions about their principals’ leadership style and decision-making strategy. A quantitative questionnaire using Likert-type scales was administered to 930 teachers in Israeli schools, of whom 745 responded. Path analysis was used to explain teacher job satisfaction by the exogenous variables. The most salient finding was that teachers’occupation perceptions strongly affected their satisfaction. Principals’transformational leadership affected teachers’satisfaction both directly and indirectly through their occupation perceptions. Implications of the study are discussed in relation ...

The influence of leadership style on teacher job satisfaction

Teacher job satisfaction is a multifaceted construct that is critical to teacher retention, teacher commitment, and school effectiveness. Interviews and questionnaires from 92 teachers in 4 urban middle schools were used to assess the importance and satisfaction they assigned to various aspects of their jobs. Teacher-pupil relationships ranked highest overall in terms of importance and satisfaction. Parent-teacher relationships commanded respondents' highest concern. Teachers in the lower achieving schools were more dissatisfied with teacher-teacher relationships and their school's curriculum than those in the higher achieving schools, and they reported a greater discrepancy in student achievement. Principals are advised to act on issues that erode teacher satisfaction by promoting teacher involvement in decision making and simultaneously focusing on education reforms.

Professional Commitment and Satisfaction Among Teachers in Urban Middle Schools

Leadership is a process influence between leaders and subordinates where a leader attempts to influence the behaviour of
subordinates to achieve the organizational goals. Organizational success in achieving its goals and objectives depends on the
leaders of the organization and their leadership styles. By adopting the appropriate leadership styles, leaders can affect employee
job satisfaction, commitment and productivity. Two hundred Malaysian executives working in public sectors voluntarily
participated in this study. Two types of leadership styles, namely, transactional and transformational were found to have direct
relationships with employees’ job satisfaction. The results showed that transformational leadership style has a stronger relationship
with job satisfaction. This implies that transformational leadership is deemed suitable for managing government organizations.
Implications of the findings were discussed further.

The influence of leadership styles on employees' job satisfaction in public sector organizations in Malaysia

In this article, we review and critique existing research on occupational stress and burnout among special educators. We also present a framework for organizing the literature base and introducing proactive innovations that will address professional needs and current shortcomings that will mediate the effects of stress.

Occupational stress and burnout among special educators: a review of the literature

Feel lonely? What about reading books? Book is one of the greatest friends to accompany while in your lonely time. When you have no friends and activities somewhere and sometimes, reading book can be a great choice. This is not only for spending the time, it will increase the knowledge. Of course the b=benefits to take will relate to what kind of book that you are reading. And now, we will concern you to try reading management of organizational behavior utilizing human resources as one of the reading material to finish quickly.

Management of Organizational Behavior: Utilizing Human Resources

This study made use of Hersey and Blanchard's concept of situational leadership to investigate the relationship between teacher job satisfaction and the leadership behaviors of “telling,” “selling,...

Rex J. Clay

Papers

The Relationship between Teacher Job Satisfaction and Principal Leadership Style.

Factors related to teacher job satisfaction and dissatisfaction.

Predictors of teaching effectiveness: The efficacy of various standards to predict the success of graduates from a teacher education program.