An-Najah Staff

The purpose of this study was to investigate the principals' motivations underlying the work in school management in the northern directorates of Palestine in the light of gender, educational level, years of experience in school management, and school's level. Furthermore, its purpose was to determine the degree of motivation domains that contribute in explaining the overall variance of these domains. To achieve that, the study was conducted on (140) principals from basic and secondary schools which represent a sample of (22%) of the target population. The questionnaire contains 62 items on principals' motivations that cover the domains of the study. The results indicate that there was a high degree of principals' motivations in general, where the overall percentage of response amounted to (74.4%). Also, the results showed a significant difference among motivations domains in favor of the vocational motivations domain, whereas, no significant differences were observed due to the variables of: gender, educational level, school level, and years of experience in school management, except for the vocational motivations domain, and the social motivations domain, in favor of the level of (5-10) years of experience for both. In addition, the study revealed the domain that most explained the overall variance, was the social motivations domain, which contributed a total of (71.4%) form the overall of the explained value of the variance. Whereas, the occupational domain came in the second range, which contribute a total of (16%) from the overall total of the explained value of the variance. The results were interpreted in the light of some other previous studies, principals' characteristics, and political and economic difficulties they experienced in Palestine in present.