SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS’ TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP AFFECTING TEACHERS’ WORK MOTIVATION UNDER CHONBURI RAYONG SECONDARY EDUCATIONAL SERVICE AREA OFFICE

Abstract

The objectives of this research were to 1) examine the level of school administrators’ transformational leadership; 2) investigate the level of teachers’ work motivation; 3) determine the relationship between school administrators’ transformational leadership and teachers’ work motivation; and 4) identify school administrators’ transformational leadership that affected teachers’ work motivation. The sample consisted of 338 administrators and teachers under the Secondary Educational Service Area Office Chonburi Rayong in the 2023 academic year. As for the 17 school administrators and 323 teachers, the sample size was determined based on the Krejcie and Morgan scale and multi–stage sampling. The research instrument was a set of questionnaires, with the reliability of .97. The statistics used for data analysis were frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, Pearson’s product-moment correlation coefficient, and Multiple regression analysis.

The research results were as follows: 1) School administrators’ transformational leadership, overall and each aspect, was at a high level, with mean scores ranging from highest to lowest: intellectual stimulation, ideological influence, inspirational motivation, and individualized consideration, respectively; 2) Teachers’ work motivation, overall and each aspect, was also at a high level. The variables were ranked with mean scores ranging from high to low: work success, respect, work environment, professional advancement, and salary or compensation, respectively; 3)School administrators’transformational leadership and teachers’ work motivation had the highest positive correlation at the .01 level of significance; and 4) The school administrators’ transformational leadership that affected teachers’ work motivation, ranging from high to low predictive power, comprised: inspirational motivation, intellectual stimulation, individualized consideration, and ideological influence. They could predict teachers' work motivation at 91.00 percent, and be written as a forecasting equation in raw and standardized score forms as Y´= .201 + .384X₂ + .338X₃ + .138X₄ + .095X₁ and Z´Y = .428Z₂ + .388Z₃ + .183Z₄ + .102Z_1.