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A Comparative Study Of The Perceived Job Satisfaction Of Site Administrators In San Diego City Schools, Roderick Reid Matheson Edd

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The purpose of the study was to identify the characteristics of the administrator's job that were the sources of satisfaction and hence motivation and those characteristics of the administrator's job that were the sources of dissatisfaction for the 277 school-site administrators in the San Diego Unified School District. The intent of the research was to identify the wants and needs of the site administrators as they pertained to job satisfaction. One hundred fifty-eight administrators (57%) returned surveys. Of those returned, 144 were used in the study. A revised version of the Job Characteristics Model developed by Hackman and Oldham in …