The Effects of Principals’ Servant Leadership Practices on Teachers’ Job Satisfaction in Government Secondary Schools of Sidama National Regional State, Ethiopia

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of principals’ servant leadership practices on teachers’ job satisfaction. The researchers employed non-experimental correlational predictive design. A simple random sampling technique was used to select 524 secondary school teachers. The Servant Leadership Scales and the Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire were administered. To analyze the data, both descriptive and inferential statistics were employed. The results of this study showed that servant leadership style was practiced by principals in government secondary schools at a moderate level; teachers believed that the principals practicing servant leadership has positive effects on their job satisfaction.