The relationships between elementary school administrators? leadership styles and teachers? job satisfaction degrees based on elementary school teachers? perceptions

The purpose of this research is to determine the relationships between the job satisfaction and leadership styles of school administrators, based on elementary school teachers? perceptions.The research principle is based on reciprocal relationship and causal research model. 400 teachers as the samples of the research were coincidentally selected among the elementary school teachers who worked in the seven main administrative districts within the border of Ankara Municipality during the 2008-2009 educational periods. In this research Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire 5-x short rater form (Bass and Avolio, 1985) was used to determine transformational and transactional leadership behaviors of elementary school administrators and Job Satisfaction Survey (Spector, 1985) was used to determine teachers? job satisfaction degree. Arithmetic means, standard deviations, percentages and frequencies were calculated and Pearson moments two-tailed correlation coefficient and multiple regressions analyze methods used to analyze the data.According to the results of the research, school administrators usually exhibit the transformational leadership behaviors and elementary school teachers get the most satisfaction on the nature of work, the least on pay component of the job satisfaction. There are positive and significant correlations between job satisfaction and transformational and transactional leadership styles. There are positive and significant meanings between job satisfaction and transformational leadership components but only contingent reward component of transactional leadership. There are negative correlations between job satisfaction and management-by-exception and laissez-faire. With respect to regression analyze idealized influence (attributed), inspirational motivation, intellectual stimulation, contingent reward and laissez-faire are meaningful support of job satisfaction; but the laissez-faire is negative.