The relationship between the physical education teachers' job satisfaction, personality traits, leadership behavior, and influence job performance Secondary Physical Educations Teachers In Selangor State

Abstract

This research aims to investigate Selangor secondary school physical education teachers' job performance and the influencing factors of job satisfaction, personality traits, and leadership behavior toward their job performance at work. This research uses the quantitative method and is supported by the quantitative thorough interview with 6 selected PE teachers from six types of schools in Selangor under the method. A sample size of 289 was selected through two-staged random sampling to represent the target population. Based on the research objectives of this study, data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics such as frequency analysis, descriptive analysis, and, Pearson's Product Moment Correlation analysis. The objective is to identify the relationship between personality traits, job satisfaction, and leadership behavior toward job performance. Personality traits showed the highest correlation to the level of job performance of PE school teachers. In addition, the analysis also showed that these teachers' job performance might be strongly affected by their co-workers, promotion, pay, and communication. Nature of work, benefit, supervision, reward, and operation condition might also be other factors that influenced this PE education teachers' job satisfaction towards their work. The higher level of openness seemed to be parallel to the level of job performance. The leadership behavior of the superior shows a positive impact on the PE secondary school teachers' performance as well. Surprisingly their job satisfaction showed the lowest significance towards their job performance. The finding also shows the relationship between job satisfaction, personality traits, and leadership behavior on job performance was linear and significantly positive. The finding of this study would greatly benefit the Ministry of Education (MOE), particularly in planning for better strategies and also new policies in implementing the Education Development Blueprint 2013 -2025.