Leadership Styles and Job Satisfaction: A case of Higher Secondary Schools in Uttar Pradesh

The present study intends to investigate the effect of transformational leadership and transactional leadership on employee satisfaction in higher secondary schools in Uttar Pradesh. In order to fulfill the objective of this study, multifactor leadership style questionnaire (MLQ-5X Short) developed by Bass and Avolio and Indian adaptation by Dr. Surendra nath Dubey and Teacher job satisfaction questionnaire constructed by Pramod Kumar and D. N. Mutha was utilize to collect the data from randomly chosen sample of 240 teachers from the various higher secondary schools situated at western geographical part of Uttar-Pradesh. The collected data was subjected to reliability test and multiple regression analysis using SPSS version 21.0. It was found that the principals higher on transformational leadership style than transactional leadership style. The results also suggests that teachers working under the principals possessing either transformational or transactional leadership style tend to rate themselves as committed to organization. However, teachers working under transformational principal rate themselves as more satisfied with job as compared to principals possessing transactional leadership style.