Transformational Leadership of School Principals and Organizational Health of Primary School Teachers in Malaysia

This study aimed to determine the level of transformational leadership practices by school principals in the national primary schools in the district of Kinta Selatan, Perak, Malaysia. The four dimensions of transformational leadership studied were individual consideration, intellectual stimulation, inspirational motivation and idealized influence. The study also looks at the level of teachers’ job satisfaction as well as the relationship with the practice of transformational leadership by the national primary school principals’. The respondents consisted of 275 teachers employed in 12 national primary schools in the district of Kinta Selatan, Perak. The data obtained was analyzed using SPSS version 20.0. Descriptive analysis and Pearson Correlation Coefficient were used to analyze the strength of the relationship. The results showed that the practice of transformational leadership by school principals’ in the district of Kinta Selatan, Perak was moderate and the job satisfaction of primary school teachers’ was below satisfactory with a significant relationship between the level of transformational leadership and job satisfaction. The implication of this study is that the school principals should ensure that their leadership performance is always kept high to have a significant relationship with the job satisfaction of primary school teachers’.