Abstract:

Educational settings consist of several stakeholders, each one desiring specific outcomes. Several studies have been conducted on types of leadership offering various ways of running a successful educational institution. Teachers, as well as administrators, must be involved in the decision-making process, must be able to communicate with one another and must maintain a level of trust and credibility in order to maintain a significant level of success. Transformational leaders create a level of teacher empowerment offering a greater level of job satisfaction allowing students to benefit.

Success of an organization is measured by a collection of individuals who work together on a common goal that transcends their own self-interest. A successful school is an organization that defines good education for itself through its goals and desired practices with education being a collective rather than individual enterprise. This presentation and paper will look at three types of leadership style, transformational, transactional, and non-transactional in relation to levels of teacher empowerment including decision making, autonomy, self-efficacy, impact, status and professional growth as well as intrinsic and extrinsic job satisfaction.

Keywords:

Leadership style, teacher empowerment, job satisfaction.