Abstract:
The role of deans and teachers are critical specifically in students' achievement and success of a
given educational institution in general. The main purposes of this study was to examine the
relationship between leadership styles, leadership effectiveness of the deans and from the teachers' job
satisfaction in the technical and vocational education and training colleges in afar region. The
conceptual framework of our study is thus, leadership styles of deans are directly related with the
leadership effectiveness of the deans and this factor in turn is positively related with teachers' job
satisfaction. The leadership styles are also directly related with teachers' job satisfaction without any
bridge. Here the independent variables were the leadership styles while dependents were the subscales of
leadership effective and the teachers' job satisfaction. Our research questions were thus to answer the
extent of each variable in the colleges and find the relationship of the variables. In regard to this,
important literatures ware reviewed. Comprehensive sampling technique was employed to collect data
from three Technical and vocational education and training (TVET) colleges in the region. A total of 121
questionnaires were distributed to all available teachers and deans directly. All those distributed were
returned with only few incomplete ones. The questionnaires composed of three instruments namely:
demagraphic questions, MLQ 5x constituting questions related to leadership styles and leadership
outcomes (effectiveness), and TJSS (teachers' job satisfaction scale) portions. Means and standard
deviations were calculated; one sample t-test and correlation analysis was employed. Our Findings
indi~ed that the deans display transformational leadership style lower than what is recommended by
universal MLQ while "the transactional and laissez-faire leadership style are displayed more -than the
recommended. The leadership outcomes are also revealed ineffective. The teachers generally perceived to
have little satisfaction in their job. The relationships among the three variable factors were positive and
significant. Finally, it was recommended based on the findings that the deans need to get
successive trainings on transformational leadership and the concerned bodies have to deal with
and search for more problems related to teacher job satisfaction.