An evaluation towards head teachers’ gender based leadership styles with teachers’ job satisfaction

Abstract

The main purpose of this study is to evaluate the style of leadership among the head teachers based on their gender. It also aims to explore behavioural differences between male and female head teachers in the way they managing the schools. The study involved teachers from various schools around Muar and Ledang. The quantitative survey questionnaires were distributed to ten schools around Muar and Ledang. The questionnaires consisted of 42 questions related to head teachers’ leadership styles and approaches as well as the teachers’ job satisfaction. The primer data was gathered through a modified questionnaires based from the Leader Behaviour Description Questionnaire (LBDQ) to evaluate the leadership styles and the approaches and consideration of head teachers. To evaluate the teachers’ job satisfaction, Teacher Job Satisfaction Questionnaire (TJSQ) was used. The validity and reliability of the instrument was tested using Alpha Cronbach scale towards 12 teachers in the District of Muar and Ledang. The pilot study showed a high reliability of 0.853 for the items tested. The data was the analyzed using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 20 to get the mean, standard deviation, ANOVA, Spearman correlation and regression. Based on the findings from the study has shown that there are only slight differences between both genders leadership styles based on teachers’ evaluation. Head teachers gender based leadership does not carry much weight on teachers’ job satisfaction align with the previous study by other researchers. The researcher recommends head teachers to prepare themselves with appropriate knowledge and skills of leadership. The researcher also suggests that further studies could be carried out either in similar or different in context to assure the effectiveness of head teacher’s leadership styles and teacher’s job satisfaction.