RTIZ school heads’ servant leadership and teachers’ satisfaction

Public office is a public trust. This governing principle and public service standards become the ultimate metrics of public servants like school heads in the field of education. This study described and examined school heads’ servant leadership forms and styles in terms of empathy, listening, commitment to the growth of subordinates and building community. Meanwhile, the study also examined teachers’ satisfaction and established if there would be significant relationship between school heads’ servant leadership and teachers’ satisfaction. This study used descriptive correlational research. It selected the participation of 200 public secondary school heads and 150 high school teachers. The study used researcher-made survey questionnaire. Results revealed servant leadership attributes were characterized by the school heads as they were emphatic, good planners and keen in the continuous improvement of the school directly emphasizing the value and credence of effective school management and administration. Also, it found out that teachers were satisfied with their job, to the organization and to the designed and implemented professional-related activities. Hence, there was a strong positive relationship between empathy and job satisfaction and organizational satisfaction. This indicates that the more the school heads show concerns with their teachers, the more likely they are satisfy with their work and to the overall structure and operations of the organizations.