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IMPACT OF HEAD TEACHER’S LEADERSHIP STYLE ON TEACHER’S JOB SATISFACTION AND WORK MOTIVATION
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Keywords: Leadership Style; Job Satisfaction; Work Motivation; Head Teacher; Pakistan.
Introduction
Educational institutions have become important places for the younger generations where they are polished. The leaders in the schools endure significant responsibility for their grooming, growth, and satisfaction, thus, their role is similar to other company’s leaders as they also have to cope with the challenges of sustaining the objectives of institutions. Leadership in school is a procedure of motivating and supervising teachers to work with a passion for the achievement of educational goals. Leadership styles and job satisfaction appear to be connected once the head teachers perform their roles and responsibilities to get the work done through their staff, head teachers apply different types of leadership styles or they may demonstrate different attitude patterns (Hinic, Grubor, and Brulic, 2017).
Leadership plays an important role in the growth and endurance of any organization or institution, similarly it is important in educational management due to its larger impact on the achievement of educational objectives. Leadership is about the improvement in organization and developing agreed upon and valuable guidelines for the organization and taking the desired step to motivate the individuals to move in the right direction (Louis et al. 2010).
Leithwood, Seashore, Anderson, and Wahlstrong (2004), argued that the significance of leadership styles of schools’ heads should not be undervalued as studies have discovered that leadership styles in schools also put a profound impact on students’ education specifically in complicated circumstances. Adeyemi (2010), explored that success mainly relies on styles of leadership practiced in schools and these are autocratic, democratic, and laissez-faire. Dickson, Hartog, and Mitchelson (2003), commented that in US, democratic leadership style developed a positive relationship with performance, whereas other style being observed was laissez-faire which allows free participation of thoughts or ideas without being interfered by the leader....