TEACHERS’ JOB SATISFACTION

This study examined head teacher's leadership behaviour and teachers’ job satisfaction in public senior secondary schools in Edo South Senatorial District. It also sought to determine whether there is a significant relationship between head teacher's leadership behaviour and job satisfaction based on the certain variables of directive, supportive, participative, and achievement-oriented leadership and job satisfaction indices such as workplace conditions, salaries/remunerations, relationships with colleagues, student behavior, parent participation, supportive, administration, supervision, responsibility, advancement and recognition. To guide the study, ten
research questions were raised and eight hypotheses formulated and tested at 0.05 level of significance. The study is a descriptive research that adopted the correlation survey design. The population of the study was 952 teachers and 136 head teachers in Public Senior Secondary Schools in Edo South Senatorial District. A sample of fifteen percent (15%) was taken from the population using the multi-stage sampling procedure and this amounted to 140 teachers and 20 head teachers in 20 schools. And 140 questionnaires were retrieved and used for the analysis. The multistage sampling procedure was used to select the sample of the study. Two questionnaires were validated with a reliability coefficient of 0.83 and were used to collect data for the study. The mean, standard deviation, percentages, Pearson r and Fisher’s Z statistics were applied to answer and test the research questions and hypotheses