The role of participatory management and social responsibility of principals in First high school teacher’s job satisfaction: creativity mediation test of principals

The purpose of this study was to investigate the mediating role of Managers creativity in the in the relationship between Managers participatory management and social responsibility with teacher’s job satisfaction. The sample size was determined using Cochranchr('39')s formula to 228 people and be selected with using relative stratified random sampling method. Data were collected using four questionnaires: job satisfaction Minnesota (1986), Choupani participatory management (2011), Carroll’s social responsibility (1991) and Amabile creative questionnaire (2001); their construct validity were evaluated by the confirmatory factor analysis and the reliability by alpha Cronbach was 0.834, 0.927, 0.802 and 0.746, respectively. For data analysis Spss23 and Amos23 software were used. The results of data analysis indicated the Participatory management and creativity of principals have a direct and significant effect on teacherschr('39') job satisfaction. But the social responsibility of principals did not have a direct and significant effect on teacherschr('39') job satisfaction. The role of creativity as mediating variable With the Sobel test in the were confirmed tconfidence level of 0.95. The indirect effect of participatory management on job satisfaction mediated by creativity was significant and the creativity of principals more than 22% of the total effect participatory management on job satisfaction. Also the lack of direct effect of social responsibility on job satisfaction, mediated by creativity, was significant and creativity explained more than 82% of the total effect social responsibility on job satisfaction.