Impact of headmasters’ transformational leadership styles on teacher job satisfaction in public senior high schools in Tumu Municipality

Abstract

The study investigated the impact of transformational leadership style of headmasters on teachers‘ job satisfaction in public Senior High schools in Tumu Municipality. The study adopted the descriptive research design. The target population comprised all 210 teachers in the two Senior High Schools in the Tumu Municipality of the Upper Wet Region of Ghana while the accessible population was 194 teachers. The census sampling technique was used to involve all 194 teachers. However, responses used for the analysis were from 190 teachers whose questionnaires were retrieved. In the data collection process, questionnaire was employed. For the analysis, frequency, percentage, means, standard deviation, and linear multiple regression were used. The findings of the study indicated that teachers perceived their headteachers to be predominantly using idealized influence style of transformational leadership as compared to inspirational motivation style of transformational leadership, intellectual stimulation style of transformational leadership and individual consideration style of transformational leadership. The study also revealed that the level of teacher job satisfaction in public senior high school teachers in the Tumu Municipality was high. The study further revealed that that headteachers‘ transformational leadership styles have significant positive impact on teacher job satisfaction in public senior high schools in the Tumu Municipality. The study concluded that if headteachers are able to intensify the use of other forms of transformational leadership styles, especially inspirational motivation, intellectual stimulation and individual consideration, teachers job satisfaction will be improved beyond the current level leading to better school climate and increase in students learning outcome. It was recommended among others that Directorate of Ghana Education Service in the Tumu Municipality should organise regularly organise seminars and in-service training programmes for headteachers to educate them on the impact of transformational leadership styles on teacher job satisfaction to effectively apply or utilize the appropriate types of transformational leadership which can positively affect teacher job satisfaction.