Leadership Style of School Principals and Teacher Job Satisfaction

School Leadership practice in Maldives is keeping a pace with contemporary recommendations that adopt a more democratic and transformational as a way to promote higher levels of school performance and greater teachers' job satisfaction. The principals generally upheld participatory and collaborative management, relations-oriented and established trusting relationship with teachers. They possess attributes of transformational leadership, such as individualized, consideration, idealized influence and intellectual stimulation through their communicative virtue and ability to shed their status and back away from power hierarchies. These transformational democratic leaders were able to empower their teachers and forged a more dispersed and democratic form of leadership in schools and expect greater instructional autonomy from the teachers when they become more highly educated.