Influence of principals’ servant leadership traits on teachers’ job performance

Abstract

The study aims to measure the influence of principals’ servant leadership and teachers’ job performance. Servant leadership is a style of leadership where principals assist, support and empower their subordinates rather than using top-down authority. Teacher’s job performance is the teacher’s capacity to detect the particular requirements of pupils, to select the most appropriate way of teaching, and to choose activities that are suitable for student learning. Bahawalnagar district was selected by convenience sampling employing multistage sampling methods. Seven male and female schools were selected by convenience sampling method. Five teachers of secondary schools were randomly chosen from each school. 350 secondary school teachers were selected as a sample. Servant Leadership Assessment Instrument (SLAI) and Self-Assessment Instrument for Teacher Evaluation (SITE) were employed as instruments to collect data. Regression analysis showed that servant leadership significantly predicted teachers’ job performance. In addition, there was no significant difference in teachers’ opinion of principals’ servant leadership attributes among male and female, however female teachers performed better in job performance than male teachers. It was suggested that male teachers should be trained to perform better on teacher quality indicators.