The Relationship between Division Heads’ Leadership Styles and Teacher Satisfaction at Siam Commercial College of Technology

Authors

  • Joshua Chakkapark
  • Wantana Vinitwatanakun

Keywords:

Transformational, Transactional, Job Satisfaction, Leadership.

Abstract

This study aimed to bridge the gap between the minimal literatures in regards leadership styles and job satisfaction. To guide this study, the following two research questions were formulated: (1) what is the relationship between division heads’ leadership style and teacher satisfaction at Siam Commercial College of Technology? (2) what are the influence of each component of division heads’ leadership on teacher job satisfaction? This study included 166 subordinates at Siam Commercial College of Technology. Using a quantitative approach, the participants were asked to answer questions about their division heads’ using the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire and their job satisfaction using the Job Satisfaction Survey. The results from both of these surveys were computed into the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) software for analysis. Using descriptive analysis to find the means and Pearson correlation coefficient to find the correlation a relationship was found small relationship was found between perception of division heads’ leadership style and teacher job satisfaction; r=.375 for transformational and r=.249 for transactional. These two correlations with job satisfaction both fall under the category of “weak” therefore the researcher determined that there was a slight relationship with perception of division heads’ leadership styles and job satisfaction at Siam Commercial College of Technology. In addition a breakdown of all facets of leadership and job satisfaction were analyzed. The finding showed that subordinates perceived their division heads’ to have a mixture of both transformational and transactional leadership with the subordinates showing a mid-range of job satisfaction. All facets of transformational leadership showed a greater correlation to job satisfaction than to half of the facets within transactional leadership (management by exception (passive) and Laissez-faire).

Author Biographies

Joshua Chakkapark

M.Ed. Candidate in Educational Administration, Graduate School of Education, Assumption University, Thailand

Wantana Vinitwatanakun

Ph.D., Program Director, Graduate School of Education, Assumption University, Thailand.

Downloads

Published

2017-07-03

How to Cite

Chakkapark, J., & Vinitwatanakun, W. (2017). The Relationship between Division Heads’ Leadership Styles and Teacher Satisfaction at Siam Commercial College of Technology. Scholar: Human Sciences, 9(1). Retrieved from http://www.assumptionjournal.au.edu/index.php/Scholar/article/view/2785

Issue

Vol. 9 No. 1 (2017): Scholar : Human Sciences

Section

Articles

License

The submitting author warrants that the submission is original and that she/he is the author of the submission together with the named co-authors; to the extend the submission incorporates text passages, figures, data, or other material from the work of others, the submitting author has obtained any necessary permission.

Articles in this journal are published under the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY What does this mean?). This is to get more legal certainty about what readers can do with published articles, and thus a wider dissemination and archiving, which in turn makes publishing with this journal more valuable for you, the authors.