Relationship between the bases of power of the principals and job involvement of the High School teachers of Physical Education

ABSTRACT: Job involvement is one of the factors that may be changed by bases of power. Power and bases can increase or decrease the rate of job involvement. Through this research the relationship of the bases of power of the principals and the job involvement of the teachers of physical education in Mashhad (Iran) high schools have been studied as the major goal. This study carried a descriptive – correlation methodology. The samples contain 205 principals and 205 physical education teachers (totally 410 people) that selected from the way of stratified sampling. We used demographic characteristics questionnaire, bases of power of principals (self perception) questionnaire for principals and job involvement of physical education teacher’s questionnaire. In order to data analysis we performed descriptive statistics (average, standard deviation, variance and frequency tables) and inferential statistics (Spearman correlation co-efficient) Using SPSS software. The Spearman correlation co -efficient between different bases of power (expertise1, information2, authority3, lawfully4, reward5, communication6 and legal7) of principals with job involvement of physical education teachers were respectively ob tained r1= 0.074, r2= -0.07, r3= -0.086, r4=0.187, r5= 0.004, r6= 0.044 and r7=0.006. Between bases of power of principals with job involvement of physical education teachers, there is no meaningful relation. It seems that the teacher of subject “Physical Education” has extreme interest in their job and they perform some works even out of the office hours, in a way that the principals’ power bases couldn’t influence their job involvement to a meaningful extend.