This descriptive study aims to identify the relationship between the principal leadership and motivation among the national school teachers in the town of Nibong Tebal, Penang, Malaysia. A total of 283 teachers via random sampling method were chosen from twenty-one national school in the district of Seberang Perai Selatan, Penang. The questionnaires constructed by Leithwood and Jantzi (1999) and adapted by Anandan (2011) have been used to measure the principal transformational leadership. The questionnaire of Teacher Motivation Questionnaire by Chung (2012) was used to measure work motivation among teachers. The findings presented that the transformational leadership in the teacher's perspective is very high while the work motivational level among the teachers is high as well. The findings show that there are significant differences in both leadership style and teacher motivation towards teachers' gender. Relationship analysis also indicated that there was a significant positive correlation between transformational leadership and teachers' work motivation. Regression analysis also displayed that the best predictor of teachers' motivation is the individual support in transformational leadership. In conclusion, this study recommends that principals should be competent in applying transformational leadership to improve teachers' innovation in accordance with the school suitability and the needs of the situation.
This study aims to identify the level of feedback environment and job motivation among the school middle leaders. Basically, the objective of this study is to determine whether is there any significant difference between feedback environment and job motivation with gender group in the study. Moreover, this study also identifies whether is there any relationship between feedback environment and job motivation. Therefore, 63 subject coordinators of fifteen secondary schools in South Kinta district which is located in Perak Darul Ridzuan, Malaysia had participated in this study. Data for this study were collected through a questionnaire which was adapted from past researchers. Descriptive analysis was done using frequency and standard deviation while inferential analysis was carried out using Spearman correlation test and Mann-Whitney U test. Results have shown that the level of feedback environment and job motivation are high. In addition, the study also showed that feedback environment has a significant and positive relationship with job motivation. Accordingly, the results found that there is no significant difference for the feedback environment and job motivation with gender group. In terms of its implications, the school leaders in educational organizations should enhance the skills, knowledge and credibility in providing constructive ISSN 2330-9709 2016 www.macrothink.org/jet 91 feedback and consistency for shaping and enhancing self-efficacy among their followers. Generating useful feedback and help should be emphasized in the working environment by the principals in order to increase the motivation of the school middle leaders in achieving the targets set.
Journal of Education and Training
The purpose of this study is to investigate the characteristics of welfare at workplace using
Contribution/ OriginalityThis study contributes to the existing literature to investigate the components (Teachers' contribution, teachers trust, school climate, teacher involvement, and teacher confidence) of happiness at work place in Malaysia schools' perspective using Performance-Welfare Model.
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