The Role of Job Satisfaction as Mediator in between Perceived Integrity in Leadership and Work Engagement in Teacher Profession at Johor Bahru, Johor

Headmasters significantly impact teachers' work engagement through their daily leadership practices. Research indicates a correlation between perceived integrity in leadership and work engagement within professional environments. Job satisfaction serves as a crucial factor influencing an individual's level of work engagement. Nevertheless, the literature regarding the headmasters’ integrity practices in leadership and their impact on teachers’ work engagement, potentially mediated by job satisfaction, remains ambiguous at this point. This study aimed to examine the perceived integrity in leadership and work engagement, mediated by job satisfaction, within a population of 1,358 primary school teachers at Johor Bahru, Johor. This quantitative and non-experimental correlation study employed the probability sampling method to gather research data through a questionnaire administered to 338 selected teacher respondents. The data was subsequently analyzed using SPSS and PLS-SEM. The findings of the study revealed that job satisfaction plays a positive and significant mediating role between the perceived integrity in leadership of headmaster and work engagement among primary school teachers at Johor Bahru. The findings of this study indicate that primary school teachers at Johor Bahru perceive a high level of integrity in leadership, particularly towards their headmaster, and also demonstrate a high level of work engagement among themselves.