Download or read book Assistant Principal (AP) Job Satisfaction written by Julie T. Finley and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After seven decades of empirical research about the topic, job satisfaction has proven to be a critical managerial factor in many professional fields, providing critical analysis of worker productivity and organizational effectiveness. However, although educational research has begun to address the impact of administrative leadership, there are still scant empirical findings about job satisfaction in the educational context, especially studies focused on the assistant principal position. With ever-increasing scrutiny on public school accountability, having data regarding AP job satisfaction is a powerful tool for principals and other educational leaders, holding the promise of improving AP productivity, reducing AP turnover, and, thereby, improving both school leadership and student achievement. This study about practicing APs in Alabama (N = 518) was one of the first statewide studies that specifically addressed the AP position at all school levels: elementary, middle and high school. This study (a) involved developing a valid and reliable AP-focused job satisfaction instrument to capture this needed data and (b) demonstrated research protocols and analytical techniques needed to analyze the dependent variable, overall AP job satisfaction. The researcher investigated the influence of AP personal characteristics (e.g., age, ethnicity, gender, highest educational level), cast as control variables, on overall AP job satisfaction. This study also addressed independent variables measuring both general job facets (e.g., salary, autonomy) of the AP position and job-specific facets (e.g., student discipline, shared decision making) of the AP Position. The job facet variables were the predictor variables of interest in the analysis.