| Summary: | The aim of this research is threefold:
• to determine the nature of job satisfaction;
• to determine the factors which influence the job satisfaction of principals at secondary schools; and
• to determine which factors influence the job satisfaction of principals at secondary schools in practice.
In order to achieve these aims a literature study and empirical study were undertaken.
The literature study was based on primary and secondary sources. A DIALOG
computer search was undertaken with the keywords such as: work motivation; work
satisfaction, teaching conditions; teacher motivation, secondary school and principal.
The nature of job satisfaction was then discussed. Once the management factors that
influence work satisfaction of principals were identified, they were grouped and
discussed under the following headings:
• factors that centres in the principal himself;
• factors situated within the school;
• factors at management level;
• factors within the community; and
• factors within the teaching career.
A questionnaire was compiled from existing questionnaires (that of Hillebrand, 1989;
Esterhuizen, 1989; Du Toit, 1994; Engelbrecht, 1996 and the Minnesota Importance
Questionnaire, 1985).
All principals at secondary schools in the Northern Cape Province, excluding schools of
Correctional Services, were taken as target group in this research. The questionnaires
were sent to principals within the target group. The information was statistically
analized with the aid of a computer after with it was interpreted. Subsequent to these
results recommendations were made.
The empirical study showed that principals at secondary schools experience
reasonable work satisfaction but that there are still certain factors which should be
addressed.
Certain recommendations are made on the basis of the empirical investigation. The
most important recommendations are that the problem of work security should be
addressed, rationalisation and assessment of teachers should be planned carefully and
the communication between the school and the Education Department should be
improved. Achievements of principals should receive more acknowledgement. === Thesis (M.Ed.)--Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education, 2000
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