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SUPERVISORY BEHAVIORs AND ITS RELATIONSHIPS WITH TEACHERS’ MOTIVATION, SATISFACTION AND PERFORMANCE IN SULTANATE OF OMAN

Salim Hamood Nasser Aljabri and Shuki Osman

UNIVERSITI SAINS MALAYSIA

Abstract

This paper describes the preliminary study on teachers’ perceived supervisory behavior of instructional supervisors in Oman, and its relationships between teachers’ work motivation, job satisfaction and teaching performance. Involving 82 teachers, four instruments were adapted for collecting the data: 1) Sistrunk’s (1981) Supervisory Behavior Description Questionnaire (SBDQ) to investigate how teachers’ perceive supervisory behavior; 2) McKinney’s (2000) Teachers’ Motivation Questionnaire (TMQ) to measure work motivation; 3) Mohrman-Cokke-Mohrman Job Satisfaction Scales (MCMJSS) to measure job satisfaction; and 4) Teachers’ Performance Competence Appraisal Instrument (TPCAI) developed by Ministry of Education of Oman (1991) to assess teachers’ performance. Descriptive statistics were used to describe the distribution of supervisors’ supervisory behavior, while correlation coefficients were interpreted utilizing Davis (1971). The findings show that three types of supervisory behaviors were practiced and the relationship among work motivation, job satisfaction, and their teaching performance was strong.

Keywords: supervisory behavior, work motivation, job satisfaction, teaching performance

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