Mediating effect of the communication skills on the job motivation and job satisfaction in the schools

Abstract

In this research, it is aimed to determine relationship between communication skills, job motivation, and job satisfaction perceptions demonstrated by the managers and teachers in private and public schools in Izmir. The research is a study in the relational screening model, which is both descriptive and descriptive. The conceptual relationships between the variables were expressed on a model and examined during research process. The study was carried out with a research group of 100 people determined by purposeful sampling method on a voluntary basis. For this purpose, a data collection tool was used. The analysis of data was carried out by using the SPSS package program on computer. In accordance with the problem of the research, the necessary statistical techniques were used. According to the findings, it was observed that there was a meaningful relation at a level of .01 between job motivation-job satisfaction, job motivation-communication skills and communication skills-job satisfaction. According to the research model, it was observed that the intrinsic job motivation perceptions of managers and teachers were higher than other variables, and that the highest relationship between correlation values was between overall job motivation and emotional communication. As a result, no mediating effect of communication skills was detected on job motivation and job satisfaction.