Principals\u27 administrative styles and teachers\u27 job satisfaction and morale in the eleven high schools of the Saint Gabriel Foundation in Thailand: A correlational analysis

This is a descriptive correlational study which attempts to determine the relationship between selected teacher and principal-related variables in the eleven high schools of the Saint Gabriel Foundation in Thailand during the school year 1989-1990. The study included all the eleven principals and a stratified random sample of 264, from a total of 730 teachers of the respondent high schools. Three questionnaires used were the Educational Administrative Diagnosis Test, the Job Satisfaction Questionnaire (Miguel and Galacio), and the Staff Moral Questionnaire (Mercado). The findings of the study support the following conclusions: 1. Since five of the principals predominantly used the task-oriented styles and six principals predominantly used the relationship-related styles, no particular pattern could be identified concerning their management orientation across eleven schools. Their administrative styles were varied depending on the type of schools and their personalities. 2. In general, principals were effective in their choice of administrative styles in accordance with Reddin\u27s definition of effective choice of styles. 3. Teachers\u27 job satisfaction in the respondent schools is independent of the administrative styles of their principals. 4. Teachers\u27 levels of morale was also independent of their principal\u27s effectiveness in the choice of their administrative styles. 5. Principals\u27 administrative styles and teachers\u27 levels of morale were dependent on each other. 6. Teachers\u27 levels of morale in the respondent schools could be predicted by the administrative styles used by the principals. However, since the predictor can only explain 5.7 percent of the variance in the teachers\u27 levels of morale, there were other factors which can further explain the variance in the levels of morale of the teachers