The reality of applying management by objectives among primary school leaders and its relationship to teachers' job satisfaction

The current study aimed to identify the reality of the application of management by objectives among primary school leaders and its relation to job satisfaction among teachers. The study adopted the relational descriptive approach. The questionnaire was used to collect data from the randomly chosen sample of the study. The study concluded that the degree of implementing the management through objectives by primary school leaders, from the teachers' point of view, was achieved to a moderate degree with a means of (3.37) and a standard deviation of (1.41). The highest achieved dimension is that of developing a practical plan to a large degree, where the arithmetic average of this dimension was (3.70) with a standard deviation of (1.60). The evaluation dimension was achieved to a moderate degree, as the arithmetic mean was (3.64) and with a standard deviation of (1.23). Then the goal-setting dimension was achieved with a medium degree, where the arithmetic mean was (3.24) with a standard deviation of (1.49). The least dimension was that of the continuous review. It was achieved to a medium degree, as the arithmetic mean was (2.92) and with a standard deviation of (1.34).
The results of the study showed that the degree of job satisfaction among primary school teachers in Bisha Governorate, from their point of view, is medium with arithmetic mean of (3.05) and a standard deviation of (1.14) and that the highest achieved dimensions were the management and the supervision ones with an arithmetic mean of (3.70) and a standard deviation of (1.15). This is followed by the work environment dimension, which was achieved with a medium degree. The arithmetic mean was (2.79) with a standard deviation of (1.08). The least of these dimensions was the financial one, which was achieved with an average degree, as the arithmetic mean was (2.65) and with a standard deviation of (1.20).
It also showed a positive correlation between the application of management by objectives by the primary schools’ leaders in Bisha Governorate and the job satisfaction of teachers, and there were no statistically significant differences at the significance level (α ≥ 0.05) between the average responses of primary school teachers in terms of their appreciation of the management by objectives and job satisfaction axes according to the academic qualification  variable, and there are statistically significant differences at the level of significance (α ≥ 0.05) according to the number of years of experience in the school variable. These differences are in favor of the number of years of experience (10 years or more).