RELATIONSHIP OF TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP STYLE AND JOB SATISFACTION OF SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS

The main purpose of the study was to investigate the relationship of transformational leadership style and job satisfaction of secondary school teachers of district Haripur. The major objective of this study was to examine the styles of leadership adopted by the heads of secondary schools which effect the job satisfaction of secondary school teachers. The design of the study was quantitative correlational research. Population includes the secondary school teachers both from public and private sector. Through Stratified random sampling technique, four hundred (400) teachers were selected as sample. The data was collected with the help of two questionnaires one developed by researcher for leadership style while other was adopted for job satisfaction. Data was analyzed by using correlation coefficient, mean and standard deviation. The results showed that Transformational Leadership was mostly practiced by the principals of secondary school teachers and the study further revealed that Transformational leadership style have the positive and significant relation with the job satisfaction of secondary school teachers of district Haripur. The study revealed that the teachers were mostly satisfied with the job satisfaction facets of Fringe benefits, Operating procedures and nature of work. While in Coworker and Communication dissatisfied, rest of the facets remained ambivalent. Research study recommended efforts on the part of principals and provision of teacher's friendly policies from competent authorities in order to have satisfied and productive teachers.