Leadership Behavior and Its Relation to Job Satisfaction of Sport Education Teachers at the Mosul City Center

• Main Authors: Naqi Hamza As-Sayya, Nadim Sh. Al-Wattar
• Format: Article
• Language: Arabic
• Published: College of Physical Education and Sport Sciences 2007-08-01
• Series: مجلة الرافدين للعلوم الرياضية
• Subjects: leadership behavior; relation; sport education
• Online Access: https://rsprs.mosuljournals.com/article_6036_fe61d879d18869068e00a6f04c53d027.pdf

Sport is considered one of the fundamental mainstays on which comprehensive revival of modern societies rests. Teachers of sports in this context are regarded as a significant part of the overall pioneering leadership that undertakes the leading role in the society in the field of sports education. Therefore, leadership behavior assumes more significance as it attracts the interests of both students and school administration .Job satisfaction, which is relevant to achievement in sport education this is because of the teachers of sport is one of the central factors affecting their leadership behavior in the school context. For realizing balance in the basic needs of teachers usually necessitates job satisfaction and job satisfaction is an indicator to the stability of man in his work environment .This thesis aims at a designing of a scale for job –satisfaction of sports’ education teachers beside the preparation of a leadership behavior scale of sports education teachers. It also expounds the relation between leadership behavior and job-satisfaction of sports’ education – of Teachers at Mosul city center The research hypothesis that have was no significant correlation between the leadership behavior and the job satisfaction . The researchers has adopted the descriptive approach for it best fits the research at hand. The research population consists of the teachers of sports and schools’ administrations at the Mosul City Center. The number of the sample is 87 teachers and 63 schoolmasters located on both left and right sides of the City Mosul. Then this population has been subdivided into two samples to construct and implement the job –satisfaction scale in sports’ education. The construction sample consists 64% embracing 56 teachers while the ratio of the implementation sample consists 36% embracing 31 teachers. The construction process rests on several scientific procedures such as statistical analysis of items using internal consistency, extreme groups, etc. the construct of scales entailed objective specifications or characteristics of the scale which included experts’ validity, construct validity, criterion related validity besides a number of exploratory experiment and reliability. So the final draft of the scale contains 25 items while the choice alternatives encompass (always, sometimes, rarely). To cement the scientific quality of the research and after streamlining all the scientific procedures relevant to the scale of leadership behavior and the construction in full of the job –satisfaction scale, both scales have been applied to the research sample when the leadership behavior scale has been handed round the school masters’ sample to measure the leadership behavior of sports’ education teachers in general and within its two dimensions of interest in the job and interest in humanities . The job –satisfaction scale on the other hand, has been distributed among teachers on the right side of Mosul City Center.