Impact of Leadership Style of Principals on Teachers’ Work Performance and Motivation at Secondary Level

Abstract

Present study was undertaken to look for the impact of leadership style of principals on teachers' work performance and motivation at secondary level. The main objectives of study were to detect the association between transactional and transformational leadership with teachers' work performance and motivation and to find the impact of transactional and transformational leadership on work performance and motivation of teachers. This study was conducted on secondary school teachers of DIKhan. The overall universe was 1768 teachers (1812 male and 676 female). A sample of 313 teachers (193 male and 120 female) out of 1768 was selected for collection of data. Questionnaires were used as tool for data collection. These questionnaires were Likert type framed on fivepoint scale. Moreover, these questionnaires were made reliable and valid through education experts. Proper statistical analysis was done through correlation and regression. Result demonstrated significant impact of transactional and transformational leadership styles on teachers' performance and motivation. Study recommends that proper training may be arranged for heads of secondary schools for using transactional and transformational at secondary level.