Head Teachers’ Transformational Leadership Styles and Teachers Job Satisfaction in Government-aided Primary Schools in Sheema Municipality

Allen Kanyesigye and Zikanga Kiyundo

Department of Educational Management and Administration of Kampala International University

ABSTRACT

This study investigated the effects of head teachers’ transformational leadership styles on job satisfaction among teachers in Government Aided Primary Schools Central Division, Sheema Municipality. Specifically, the study examined the relationship between head teachers’ inspiration motivation aspect and their influence on job satisfaction of teachers, determined whether the head teachers individualized consideration influence job satisfaction of teachers, and assessed whether head teachers’ intellectual stimulation aspects influence the job satisfaction of teachers in government aided primary schools in Central Division, Sheema Municipality, Sheema District. This study employed a quantitative research approach to examine the variables of interest and the study adopted a correlational research design on a sample of 102 teachers and head teachers. Data was collected using a self-administered questionnaire. Quantitative data was analysed using descriptive statistics namely frequencies, percentages and means and interferential methods that are correlation analysis and multiple regression. The findings revealed that there was no significant relationship between head teachers’ inspiration motivation and its relationship with job satisfaction of teachers. It was thus concluded that the contribution of head teachers’ inspirational motivation and individualized consideration to the response variable to the response variable were only 19 % and 32% respectively and thus there was no significant relationship between head teachers’ inspiration motivation, head teachers’ individualized consideration and teachers’ job satisfaction. Therefore, it was recommended that head teachers in government aided primary schools in Central Division, Sheema Municipality, Sheema District should come up with better inspirational motivation strategies to demonstrate to teachers that a teaching job is as good as any other career. They should do so by offering competent instructional leadership that would sharpen their teachers’ intellect.

Keywords:  Head Teachers, transformational leadership styles, teachers job satisfaction and Government aided schools.

CITE AS: Allen Kanyesigye and Zikanga Kiyundo (2024). Head Teachers’ Transformational Leadership Styles and Teachers Job Satisfaction in Government-aided Primary Schools in Sheema Municipality. IAA Journal of Arts and Humanities 11(3):46-66. https://doi.org/10.59298/IAAJAH/2024/11.34666.33.11