The degree to which primary school principals in Rahat practice participative leadership and its relationship with the teachers’ motivation level from the perspective of teachers

Abstract

This research explored the degree to which primary school principals in Rahat practice participative leadership and its relationship with the teachers’ motivation level from the perspective of teachers. The researcher adopted a descriptive analytical approach. The population consists from all the primary school teachers working in Rahat which is located in Northern area of Negeb. It involves 673 female and male teachers during the academic year 2020/2021. The researcher selected a sample consisting from 30 male teachers and 40 female teachers. A questionnaire was designed. The questionnaire forms were passed to those teachers. All of the forms were retrieved. The simple random sampling method was used for choosing those teachers. The questionnaire includes the participative leadership scale and the motivation scale. The participative leadership scale involves the following dimensions: the human relationship, power delegation, and engagement in the decision making process. The researcher found that the degree to which primary school principals in Rahat practice participative leadership is moderate in all the dimensions jointly. He also found that the teachers’ motivation level is moderate. He found that there is a positive significant relationship between the degree to which primary school principals in Rahat practice participative leadership and teachers’ motivation level.