Date of Award

8-2010

Thesis Type

PhD

Document Type

Thesis

Divisions

Faculty of Education

Department

Department of Educational Management, Planning and Policy

Institution

Universiti Malaya

Abstract

This research discusses the effect of management and decision-making styles on the job satisfaction of academic staff in selected Malaysian public universities. The sample consisted of 1,117 respondents. The instruments used in the study were the Teacher Job Satisfaction Questionnaire developed by “Lester”, adapted from Herzberg’s Theory, Decision Style Inventory by Rowe and Boulgarides and Likert’s 4 systems. Structural Equation Model was used to determine the direct-effect of management and decisionmaking styles on academic staff job satisfaction, Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) was employed for Items goodness-of-fit and the Rasch Model for Item and Person’s difficulty during the pilot study. The findings show that three universities had adopted the behavioural decisionmaking style, while others had adopted analytic and conceptual decision-making styles. Communication and decision-making were the dominant styles of management. Directeffect of decision-making styles on academic staff job satisfaction was found, while insignificant direct-effect of management styles was found on academic staff job satisfaction only by mediating decision-making styles. Hygiene factors were the predictors for job satisfaction in all five public universities.

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Thesis (PhD) – Faculty of Education, Universiti Malaya, 2010

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