درجة ممارسة مديرات المدارس الحكومية في لواء الرصيفة للقيادة الأخلاقية و علاقتها بالرضا الوظيفي للمعلمات من وجهة نظرهن

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The study aimed to identify the degree to which public school principals in Rusaifa District practice ethical leadership and its relationship to female teachers’ job satisfaction from their point of view.

To achieve the objectives of the study, the descriptive correlative approach was adopted.

The study tools included a questionnaire that measures the dimensions of ethical leadership, consisting of (24) and a questionnaire on job satisfaction for female teachers, consisting of (12) items., after verifying its validity and stability, and applying it to the study sample consisting of (230) female teachers in Rusifah District / Jordan, who were chosen randomly, in the second semester of the year 2021/2022.

Among the most prominent findings of the study: that the dimensions expressing the moral leadership variable prevalent among school principals have all obtained arithmetic averages that ranged between (3.44-3.66), which are averages of medium degrees, and that the general level of the job satisfaction items came at a medium degree.

With an arithmetic average (3.53) and a standard deviation (7.22), and there is a correlative relationship between the moral leadership followed by the principals of public schools with the job satisfaction of the female teachers from their point of view.

The results also showed that there were no statistically significant differences at the level (a < 0.05) between the averages of female teachers' response in the degree of practicing moral leadership among public school principals, which is attributed to the (educational qualification and experience) variable.

The study recommended the need to strengthen ethical leadership, by adopting an administrative philosophy and organizational methods that support the implementation of the principles and dimensions of ethical leadership and paying attention to the requirements of female teachers' job satisfaction and searching for ways to raise their levels and job performance.