- Collection:
- Atlanta University and Clark Atlanta University Theses and Dissertations
- Title:
- The relationship between job satisfaction of teachers in Ethiopian secondary schools and working conditions, leadership behavior, school climate and certain demographic variables of the principals, 1987
- Creator:
- Berou, Ayalew
- Date of Original:
- 1987-05-01
- Subject:
- Degrees, Academic
Dissertations, Academic - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- theses
dissertations - Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- The study investigated the degree of relationship that existed among teachers' Job Satisfaction, School Climate, the principal's leadership behavior and certain demographic variables in Ethiopian Selected Secondary School principals. Nineteen (19) Addis Ababa selected secondary school principals and 950 teachers were used to collect data. The teachers were asked to complete the OCDQ, LBDQ (Halpin, 1957) and also to respond to a questionnaire on Working Conditions, and Job Satisfaction (designed by the researcher).All the principals of the Selected School were given a questionnaire requiring Demographic data. The nine hundred and fifty (950) teachers were randomly selected from a population of 1,137.From those responding 427 useful questionnaires were obtained, which is about 377= (N-427). Multiple Regression Analysis, T-test, and Pearson r, Correlation were used to analyze the data. The result of the multiple regression analysis shows that the variable with the strongest influence on job satisfaction is working conditions, accounting for 317= of variance in the independent variable, rsq - .3110: The next with strongest influence is leadership behavior accounting for 8.770 of variance in job satisfaction while school climate contributes 17> of variation in job satisfaction. The Beta weight for working conditions is .3743, leadership behavior has a Beta of .3292, voile school climate has a Beta of only .0984. Two schools were further chosen for comparison of how the four variables operated in those two selected schools which is General Wingate and Ethiopia Tikdem No. 1. Using T-test for data analysis, the result shows that General Wingate has more job satisfaction with a mean score of 3.14, than Tikdem with a mean score of 2.46. The T-test result further shows that Tikdem has a more open climate with a mean score of 2.8.From the findings it was observed that in order to increase job satisfaction of teachers in secondary schools in Ethiopia the Ministry of Education must act to improve the working conditions in the schools and to encourage the principals to be more open and democratic in their leadership style.
Degree type: dissertation
Degree name: Doctor of Education (EdD)
Department: Department of Educational Administration
Advisor: Turner, Trevor T. - Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/cau.td:1987_berou_ayalew.pdf
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
- Rights:
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