Junior High School Principals' Leadership Behavior And Teacher Effectiveness Teacher Job Satisfaction

This paper aims at finding the relationship between leadership behavior of schoolmasters and teachers'collective efficacy, self-efficacy, job satisfaction. Hypothesis: 1.the school means of teachers'job satisfaction are significantly different; 2. the affects are different between these schools on Intercept and Slope; 3. teacher collective efficacy, leadership behavior of schoolmasters and area of schools can account for the differences of Intercept between schools; 4. school level collective efficacy mediate the relationship between leadership behavior of schoolmasters and job satisfaction.428 delegates from 33 junior high schools are scaled by Leadership Behavior Description Questionnaire including teacher collect efficacy scale, teacher self-efficacy scale and job satisfaction scale. Then we used HLM, SPSS and LISREL to analyze the data. There are 185(43.2%) male teachers and 232(54.2%) female, and 11(2.6%) lost. There are three kinds of schools: 16 schools in the villages and towns, 5 schools in the county town, and 12 schools in the city. Teacher school age as follows: 0-3 years, 193(45.1%); 4-6 years, 178(41.6%); 7 years 57(13.3%)。the results show : 1. the school means of teachers'job satisfaction are significantly different; 2. after controlling the sex and age of teaching, teachers'self-efficacy doesn't significantly affect teachers'job satisfaction, especially existing in Intercept and Slope; 3. school level variables (Consideration, Group teaching competency, Task analysis) significantly predict Intercept's (β0) changes, Initiating Structure negative predict Intercept's (β0) changes; 4. school level collective efficacy mediate the relationship between leadership behavior of schoolmasters and job satisfaction.Then it comes to the conclusion:collective efficiency and teacher self-efficacy are very important variables to affect teachers'job satisfaction. Schoolmasters'leadership behavior can improve teachers'job satisfaction , too.