Leadership Competencies of Public Elementary School Heads and its Impact on Job Satisfaction of Teachers in the District of Victoria, Division of Laguna

Abstract

Abstract: This study aimed to determine the level of leadership competencies of public elementary school heads and its impact on job satisfaction of teachers in the District of Victoria, Division of Laguna. This study is limited to the three public elementary schools in the District of Victoria, Division of Laguna namely Victoria Elementary School, Masapang Elementary School, and Banca Elementary School. The researcher selects fifty (50) teachers per school as the respondents of the study. A total of one hundred fifty (150) teacher-respondents. The study used the Slovins Formula with 10% of margin of error in determining the sample respondents per school. The study used the descriptive survey research utilizing the researcher made instrument. The instrument consisted of the leadership competencies of school heads in terms of managerial leadership competencies, core behavioral competencies, and core skills, and the job satisfaction of teachers in terms of working conditions, work-related goal progress, and goal support. The study found out that in general, the level of leadership competencies of public elementary school heads with respect to core behavioral competencies, managerial leadership competencies and core skills is Highly Competent. It may mean that the school heads demonstrated all the time the leadership competencies of a school leaders that can hone their knowledge and competence in leading the people and institution. Likewise, in general, the teachers are satisfied on the level of their job satisfaction in terms of working conditions, work-related goal progress, and goal support. It may mean that the teachers are complacent for the resources and learning opportunities provided for them that can lead to better professional development. It was statistically found out that there is a significant relationship between the leadership competencies of school heads and job satisfaction of teachers in terms of working conditions, work-related goal progress and goal support, since the obtained p-value of 0.00 does not exceed at 0.05 level of significance, thus the null hypothesis is rejected. It simply shows that teachers are satisfied with their job due to the attention and support of the school heads. Further, it was concluded that the school heads of the public elementary schools in the District of Victoria, Division of Laguna are worthy of emulation having demonstrated as Highly Competent in the performance of their duties. Also, the elementary teachers in the District of Victoria, Division of Laguna are satisfied with their job. Then, the teachers’ work satisfaction is directly affected by the school administrators’ core skills and inversely affected by the managerial leadership and core behavioral competencies of the school heads