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Item INFLUENCE OF PRINCIPALS' LEADERSHIP STYLES ON THE TEACHERS' PERFORMANCE IN GOVERNMENT SECONDARY SCHOOLS OF HAWASSA CITY ADMINISTRATION, SIDAMA NATIONAL(HAWASSA UNIVERSITY, 2023-05) MEBRATU DAWIT GODANAThe success of a school is significantly influenced by the teacher competencies. The principal should employ a leadership style that fosters teachers' competence, growth, and development in order to increase teacher performance. Therefore, the main purpose of this study was to assess the influence of principals' leadership styles on the teachers' performance in government secondary schools of Hawassa City Administration, Sidama National Regional State, Ethiopia. To accomplish this, the study employed a descriptive survey design. The study was carried out in ten government secondary schools of Hawassa City Administration. A total of 312 respondents have participated in the study. Among them, 270 teachers were taken as a sample through simple random sampling technique. Additionally, 30 government school principals were included through purposive sampling technique. Questionnaire was distributed to teachers and school principals and interview were conducted with supervisors of the schools. Mean and standard deviations were used to analyze quantitative data while independent sample t-test was used to test the significance. The findings indicate that autocratic leadership style is dominantly practiced by principals in the school. Also, principals were intermittently controlling teachers and majority of the respondents reported that the principals make decisions dependently with little input from the rest of the group. In general, the result supposed to conclude, that principals’ leadership style of government secondary schools of Hawassa City Administration had significance influences on decision-making and delegation to improve the level of teachers’ performance and thus teachers have not been performing to the expectation. This may be especially when the teachers are not convincible, not flexible and strongminded. Therefore, the way of principals’ leadership was not implemented as expected. Based on the findings, it is recommended that the principals of governmental secondary schools should use a mixture of leadership stylesItem LEADERSHIP STYLES AS PREDICTORS OF JOB SATISFACTION OF EMPLOYEES’ IN GOVERNMENTAL OFFICES OF SHONE TOWN ADMINISTRATION, HADIYA ZONE, CENTRAL ETHIOPIA REGIONAL STATE, ETHIOPIA.(HAWASSA UNIVERSITY, 2024-06) ALEBACHEW YOHANNESThe goal of this study is to investigate how leadership styles predict employees' job satisfaction in Governmental Offices of Shone Town. The researcher used a combination of simple random, purposive and stratified sampling techniques to choose 10 offices and 293 respondents to represent the total population as a sample and in order to collect data. Totally, 293 participants involved in the study where 17 of them selected through non probab ility sampling technique whereas 276 were selected through probability sampling techniques. A total of 276 questionnaires were distributed, and 276 of them were correctly completed and returned, in addition 17 managers were interviewed. Both descriptive statistic s (frequency, percentages, mean, and standard deviation) and inferential model (Pearson’s correlations, t test, ANOVA and multiple regressions analysis) were applied as methods of data analysis. Independent sample t-test was used for sex differences between male and female and age differences of employees in their satisfaction and one way ANOVA was employed to examine the differences in demographic variables in the scores on employee’s satisfaction, Cronbach’s alpha to assess the reliability of the questionnaire items in addition to employing SPSS version 26. Accordingly, the results showed all three leadership styles are applicable in Governmental Offices but transformational leadership style has more effect on employee’s satisfaction. The result also revealed that statistical significant difference on educ ation level.The present study has provided recommendations for the leadership improvement and on enhancing high level of satisfaction. Key words: leadership, leadership style, transformational leadership, transactional leadership, laissez-faire leadership, and job satisfactionThe goal of this study is to investigate how leadership styles predict employees' job satisfaction in Governmental Offices of Shone Town. The researcher used a combination of simple random, purposive and stratified sampling techniques to choose 10 offices and 293 respondents to represent the total population as a sample and in order to collect data. Totally, 293 participants involved in the study where 17 of them selected through non probab ility sampling technique whereas 276 were selected through probability sampling techniques. A total of 276 questionnaires were distributed, and 276 of them were correctly completed and returned, in addition 17 managers were interviewed. Both descriptive statistic s (frequency, percentages, mean, and standard deviation) and inferential model (Pearson’s correlations, t test, ANOVA and multiple regressions analysis) were applied as methods of data analysis. Independent sample t-test was used for sex differences between male and female and age differences of employees in their satisfaction and one way ANOVA was employed to examine the differences in demographic variables in the scores on employee’s satisfaction, Cronbach’s alpha to assess the reliability of the questionnaire items in addition to employing SPSS version 26. Accordingly, the results showed all three leadership styles are applicable in Governmental Offices but transformational leadership style has more effect on employee’s satisfaction. The result also revealed that statistical significant difference on educ ation level.The present study has provided recommendations for the leadership improvement and on enhancing high level of satisfaction