Directors' Leadership and Teachers' Empowerment and Job Satisfaction in Child Care Centers

Original Article

Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association 2009;47(2):27-37.

시설장의 리더십과 보육교사의 임파워먼트와 직무만족도

김인자, 부정민

탐라대학교 유아교육과

Directors' Leadership and Teachers' Empowerment and Job Satisfaction in Child Care Centers

Jung-Min Boo, Kim, In-Ja

Department of Early Childhood Education, Tamna University

ABSTRACT

This study investigated the leadership skills of directors in addition to empowerment and Job satisfaction of teachers in Child Care Centers. The participants were 446 teachers who worked in early childhood educational institutes across Jeju province. The results were as following.: Firstly, transformational leadership significantly affected empowerment. However, individual consideration and transactional leadership from transformational leadership did not significantly affect empowerment. Secondly, individual consideration and intellectual stimulation from transformational leadership had a significant effect on job satisfaction. Also, reward for performance and exceptional management from transactional leadership had a significant effect on the job itself, the relationship, the working environment, and salary package among sub-variables in job satisfaction.

Keywords: 변혁적리더십, transformational Leadership, 거래적리더십, transactional Leadership, 임파워먼트, empowerment, 직무만족도, job satisfaction