The Relationship of the Democratic Leadership style with the Job Satisfaction of Faculty Members in Private Universities in Jordan

Hafsa Yahea Aljamal,Najihah Abd Wahid

doi:10.6007/ijarbss/v10-i6/7356

Abstract

This paper aims to reveal the relationship of the democratic style of faculty deans with the job satisfaction of faculty members in private universities in Jordan. To achieve the goals of the study, the study instrument was developed to measure the job satisfaction of faculty members in those universities, and the questionnaire was distributed to the study sample in a random and systematic manner, which consists of (345) members. The study concluded that there is a positive relationship between the style of democratic leadership and the job satisfaction of the faculty members.

Highlights

Higher education is a leader of the movement for progress and civilized prosperity in all fields, and states have their hopes and aspirations suspended in achieving the highest civilizational and material horizons
Correlational studies aim to discover and describe the strength of the link between the various variables (Abdel-Qader, 2011), and defines (Al-Assaf, 2000), the descriptive, relational methodology as that type of research method by which it is possible to know whether there is a relationship between two or more variables, and who knowing the degree of that relationship as shown by the study of Nani and Adly (2017), which aimed to reveal the relationship between leadership styles and organizational creativity and the study of Zakaria (2017), which aimed to identify the degree of satisfaction of faculty members with the performance of scientific councils at the" University of Najran"
This study has developed a special questionnaire, in order to identify the impact of the leadership behavior of deans of faculties in private universities on the job satisfaction of faculty members from the viewpoint of them in those universities where the instrument consisted of its final form of three parts, the first part to briefly identify the respondent with the aims of the study And its terms, and the second part includes preliminary data on the sample population represented in the data of demographic variables

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Introduction

Higher education is a leader of the movement for progress and civilized prosperity in all fields, and states have their hopes and aspirations suspended in achieving the highest civilizational and material horizons. Universities are considered centers of intellectual and research radiation in societies that play important roles, interact with the surrounding environment and influence and be affected by them, as the university system is distinguished from other other bureaucratic systems, which requires that the university be managed with a leadership philosophy and administrative style that is consistent with the characteristics of the university system. The work of the faculty, which is the nucleus of education in any university, and the extent of the results of that deans of faculties achieve results through the exercise of a leadership style in achieving job satisfaction for the faculty members working for him in light of financial developments and alleviating the surrounding pressures that affected the faculty member in that Universities

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