Principal’s Instructional Leadership Skills and Teachers’s Work Motivation Level

Abstract

This study was carried out to identify relationship between a principal’s instructional leadership skills and teachers’ level of work motivation in school. Focus was given to four identified principal’s instructional leadership skills, namely education leadership skills, complex problem solving skills, communication skills and developing skills. A group of randomly selected secondary school teachers answered two questionnaires named “The School Management Skills of the 21^st Century” and the “Measure of Individual Differences in Achieving Tendency”. Results indicate that the teachers’ motivation was significantly and strongly correlated with the principal’s instructional leadership skills. The finding imples that principal’s instructional leadership skill is a factor of teachers’ work motivation.