RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FOLLOWERSHIP STYLES AND JOB PERFORMANCE OF SENIOR TEACHERS IN SHWE PYI THAR TOWNSHIP
Abstract
- The purpose of this study was to examine what followership style was mostly conducted by senior teachers in Shwe Pyi Thar Township. The study intended to study job performance of these teachers in terms of schools and their personal factors such as specialized subjects and total years of service in education. The main purpose of the study was to investigate relationship between followership styles and job performance. Descriptive survey research design was employed in this study. Both quantitative and qualitative methods were used in this study. As focused on census method, all senior teachers in Shwe Pyi Thar Township were selected as samples. Data were collected from 159 senior teachers. The instrument consisted of demographic data, 20 items for Followership Style Questionnaire and 20 items for Teachers’ Job Performance Questionnaire. The internal consistency (Cronbach’s alpha) of the whole scales of Followership Styles was 0.83 and that of Teachers’ Job Performance was 0.88. Follow up interview questions were also asked to six interviewees for the confirmations of quantitative study statistics. Descriptive statistics revealed that exemplary followership style was the most common followership style and the level of job performance was moderate. One-Way ANOVA analyses revealed that there were significant differences in some dimensions of teachers’ job performance grouped by schools (df=7, F=3.531, p<.01) but not by total years of service in education. Independent Samples t Test analyses showed that job performance of senior teachers who specialized in Arts subjects were slightly lower than that of senior teachers who specialized in Science subjects (p=0.048). Pearson correlation analyses expressed that there were significant and moderate positive relationships between followership style and job performance of senior teachers (r=.452, p<.01). The interview results were generally complementary to the quantitative findings.
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Year
- 2020
Author
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Lwin Lwin Mar
Subject
- Educational Theory
Publisher
- Myanmar Academy of Arts and Science (MAAS)