AN EXPLORATION OF HEADS’ AUTOCRATIC AND DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP STYLE AND ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH SUBJECT SPECIALISTS’ JOB SATISFACTION IN HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOLS

Abstract

The main idea of the study was designed to explore the heads’ leadership styles and its relationship with Subject Specialists’ job satisfaction in higher secondary schools. Questionnaire as the research instrument was developed by the researcher and improved through experts’ opinions and pilot study.  The questionnaire items were consisted of two parts one for leadership style and other for job satisfaction The overall reliability of the questionnaire was 0.92 at Cronbach’s alpha. All the Subject Specialists’ in Sargodha division was the population of my study. The study was undertaken on a census sample of all (400) subject specialists/senior subject specialists in Sargodha Division. The questionnaire was administered by research assistant and by postal service. The overall response rate was 89.25 % (N=400). The research design was descriptive and correlational in nature. The descriptive statistics were used to analyze and summarize the data. The inferential statistics, i.e. Pearson Correlation and scatter plot were used to explore the significant correlation in the perceptions of respondents. The findings related to exploration of heads leadership style show that democratic leadership style was dominant. Pearson Correlation coefficient was +0.803 which mean heads’ democratic leadership style have positive correlation with Subject Specialist’s job satisfaction. It is recommended that democratic style may be used in all educational institutions for better job satisfaction of teachers.