أبعاد التمكين الإداري وعلاقته بالرضا الوظيفي لدى معلمي مدارس ما بعد الأساسي بمحافظة شمال الباطنة بسلطنة عمان

This quantitative study aimed to investigate teachers' administrative empowerment and its relationship with their job satisfaction in post-basic schools in the governorate of North Batinah in the Sultanate of Oman. The study used a descriptive method to collect the necessary data for the current study. To achieve the purpose of the study a stratified sampling method was used to choose the respondents. The questionnaire consisted of 54 items was distributed to 300 participants. The findings revealed that: Administrative empowerment and job satisfaction of the participating received high mean scores. In the authority dimension of the administrative empowerment, a statistically significant difference between males and females where male participants indicated higher perceptions at p≤0.05. There was a statistically significant difference between male and female participants in the social status dimension, where female participants showed higher satisfaction at p≤0.05. There was a statistically high significant relationship (p≤0.01) between the administrative empowerment and job satisfaction for teachers. This relationship indicates when teachers' administrative empowerment increases; job satisfaction for teachers also proportionally increases. The researcher recommended; Educational institutions need to adopt educational policies that call for power-sharing and allow a big number of staff to participate in decision-making.