The effect of principal's leadership style toward teachers' job satisfaction and intention to leave (Exploratory study on Joy English Surabaya)

This study examined the principal’s leadership style and its effect toward teachers’ job satisfaction and intention to leave. Specifically, the principal of Joy English was chosen as the subject of the study, whereas the principal’s leadership style was the object of the study. The informants were teachers who had been supervised for more than four semesters. The informants were asked to fill in the questionnaires and come to an interview for ensuring their answers. The interview were recorded and transcribed to collect the data related to principals’ leadership style and characteristics; teachers’ job satisfaction and teachers’ intention to leave. In categorizing and analyzing the data, six common leadership styles were used as the guidelines. Besides, the theory of job satisfaction and intention to leave were used to dig out the effect of leadership styles toward those two variables. From this study, it is found that the principal of Joy English tended to possess the transformational leadership style. However, different from other previous studies and theoretical concept, the transformational leadership style did not bring a positive impact toward teachers’ job satisfaction. In fact, it raised teachers’ intention to leave