Servant Leadership for school principals as perceived by teachers in public schools in Kuwait and its relation to their job satisfaction

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Department of Educational Management and Planning - Faculty of Education - Kuwait University.

Abstract

The study aimed to identify the practice of servant leadership of school principals in Kuwait from their teachers’ perspectives and its relation to their job satisfaction. The current study followed the descriptive approach. The tool of this study is the Organizational Leadership Assessment (OLA) which consisted of (41) items. The study sample included (794) teachers in public schools in Kuwait. The study results are as following:
-       Teachers’ perspectives toward servant leadership practiced is in moderate levels. Based on six categories of servant leadership, building community ranked first, followed by providing leadership, valuing others, developing people, displaying authenticity, and shares leadership.
-       Teachers expressed a high level of job satisfaction.
-       A statistically significant positive correlation was found between school principal servant leadership practices from teachers’ perspectives and teachers’ job satisfaction.
-       No differences were found in teachers’ perspectives toward school principals servant leadership due to their years of experiences.

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