Influence of transformational leadership in some variables of organizational satisfaction in teaching staff and administration of a public institution of High School Education

Abstract

The principal goal for the study was detection the influence of transactional, transformational leadership, no leadership, and expected result of managers to organizational satisfaction own administrative staff and professor at Public Institution of Educational Higher in Mexico City. We applied a questionnaire of demographic and organizational data and the MLQ (Multifactor Leadership questionnaire) adapted and translated to Spanish, to a sample of 110 employees in the mentioned public institution. SEM showed the causal relations between the leadership and the outcome variables (decision making freedom, salary satisfaction, job satisfaction). A direct significant influence was found only on job satisfaction. Previous research and theories were confirmed, showing direct significant correlations between leadership variables (transformational, transactional and outcome variables) and inverse correlations with laisserfaire leadership. Alpha Reliability levels were higher than 0.70 in all the variables of the questionnaire.