THE IMPACT OF PRINCIPALS’ TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP ON TEACHERS’ SATISFACTION: EVIDENCE FROM GREECE
Journal Title: European Journal of Business and Social Sciences - Year 2014, Vol 3, Issue 6
Abstract
Leadership and job satisfaction has been important issues in Human Resources management and in empirical educational research. The main interest of this study is to examine the effect of principals’ transformational leadership on teachers’ job satisfaction across 77 different Greek elementary and secondary schools during a difficult economic period for Greece and other European countries. For the analysis of the above effect multilevel SEM analysis was conducted using the approach of Muthén (1997) and the software package MPlus (Muthén & Muthén, 2001). For the purpose of this study psychometric properties of Principal Leadership Questionnaire (PLQ) were examine in the Greek educational context using structural equation modeling techniques. The results revealed that general factor, representing the items of PLQ have an effect upon all Teacher’s Satisfaction Inventory (TSI) constructs. The originality of the present study highlights the interpretation of two concepts; transformational leadership and job satisfaction based on a centralized educational system. Conclusions on implications, suggestions for future research and limitations of the findings are drawn.
Authors and Affiliations
Aikaterini Gkolia| (corresponding author) aikaterini07@hotmail.com University of Thessaly, Trikala, Greece, Dimitrios Belias| dbelias@pe.uth.gr University of Thessaly, Trikala, Greece, Athanasios Koustelios| akoustel@pe.uth.gr University of Thessaly, Trikala, Greece
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