The purpose of this study is to get the degree of preschool teacher's satisfaction about his or her own work and the guidance of director and to find out whether there is a certain relationship between their degree of satisfaction and the type, and th...
The purpose of this study is to get the degree of preschool teacher's satisfaction about his or her own work and the guidance of director and to find out whether there is a certain relationship between their degree of satisfaction and the type, and then to help leadership development of director with those results.
Concrete researching contents set up in this study to achieve these purpose are following;
1) In the case that the teachers are late, how are the types of their directors?
2) Is there any difference of their degree of satisfaction according to status, scholarship, career and age.
3) Is there any difference of their degree of satisfaction according to director's type of leadership.
280 preschool teachers working at about two hundreds kindergartens in Inchon Kwangyeok-si were surveyed about the leadership of preschool directors and teachers' degree of working satisfaction to solve above research problem.
The survey questions about director's leadership were used with materials reconstructed APLS-Ⅱ Thompson invented in accordance with our reality. Authorized the degree of adequacy of this tool LBDQ was reported .63 and relatively stable.
The analysis of collected materials was computerized by their feature of research question. Statistical method were percentage, average and standard deviation. F, t and X2 verification were used for their verification of difference.
The result of this study seen through above are following;
First, type distribution of kindergarten directors' leadership was efficient type 202(72.1%), inefficient type 55(19.6%), task type 12(4.3%) and harmony among men type 11(3.9%). And efficient type was more strong in chief teachers than general teachers, lower scholarship and more career. But it was not significant statistically.
Second, as the scholarship was higher, career is more and age was more, it generally was higher in analyzed result of task satisfaction by teachers' characteristic feature.
Third, on the aspect of the relation between director's leadership type and teacher's task satisfaction, as the type of director was an efficient one, the degree of task satisfaction was high and showed significant different statistically. The teachers who recognized that their director was the type of harmony among men or women also has high degree of that. On the other hand, the teachers who their director was the type of task had a low degree of task satisfaction but it was not significant statistically. Most of teachers who recognized that their director was inefficient had high scholarship and low degree of task satisfaction.
From above research results, it can be seen that the teachers recognizing that the leadership type of director was efficient had a high task satisfaction. So kindergarten directors should pay attention to
efficient leadership. As it was lower in the case of high scholarship, they have to provide the chance to show off teacher's ability. And as it is seen that most of teachers has low satisfaction in self-realization, the program of kindergarten itself and various education training will be necessary for them.
This study is just executed by limited tool on the aspect of teachers' recognition about the director's leadership and the degree of satisfaction but broad research like collecting the sample or type of each area or
various tools about director's leadership and task satisfaction should necessarily be done.