Abstract
Leaders aim to use organizational resources effectively. For this reason, it is important to examine the tendencies and perspectives of people, who form the basis of organizational resources, towards the organization. The aim of this study is to examine the relationships between the leadership styles of school administrators, who are accepted as the leaders of the school, and the job satisfaction levels of teachers, who are the main stakeholders of the school. Relational screening model was used in the research. The universe of the research consists of a total of 15,489 teachers working in public schools in Sakarya in the 2021-2022 academic year. The sample of the study consists of 252 teachers working in 17 schools selected from the population by simple random sampling method. In this study, it was concluded that the transformational leadership styles of school administrators and teachers' job satisfaction levels were positively and moderately correlated, while the release and follow-up leadership styles of school administrators were positively and low-level correlated with teachers' job satisfaction. According to this finding, it can be said that the transformational, liberating and sustaining behaviors and practices of school administrators affect teachers' job satisfaction. Among them, transformational leadership behaviors and practices seem to affect satisfaction more. In the study, moderate correlations were observed between the transformational, liberating and continuity leadership styles of school administrators and the job satisfaction perception level of teachers. It has been determined that the transformational, releasing and sustaining leadership behaviors and practices of the school principal are a significant predictor of teachers' job satisfaction perceptions, and suggestions are included in the article in accordance with the research findings.