Document Type
Article (Restricted)
Publication Date
1-1-2010
Abstract
This study was carried out to identify relationship between a principal's instructional leadership skills and teachers' level of work motivation in school. Focus was given to four identified principal's instructional leadership skills, namely education leadership skills, complex problem, solving skills, communication skills and developing skills. A group of randomly selected secondary school teacher answered two questionnaires named 'The School Management Skills of the 21st Century and the 'Measures of Individual Differences in Achieving Tendency'. Results indicate that teachers' motivation was significantly and strongly correlated with the principal's instructional leadership skills. The funding imples that principal's instructional leadership skill is a factor of teachers' work motivation.
Keywords
Work motivation, Leadership skill, Work motivation.
Divisions
Education
Publication Title
Journal of the Institute of Educational Leadership
Volume
10
Publisher
Leadership
Additional Information
Institute of Educational Leadership, Deputy Vice Chancellor(Academic & International), University of Malaya