CHAPTER 3

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

3.1 Introduction

The purpose of this chapter is to introduce and explain further on the research

methodology of this paper that study on the “Transformational Leadership and

Teachers’ Motivation”. This chapter will define the research design, population,

sampling design, instrumentation, data collection method, and data analysis.

3.2 Research Design

To be able to perform this study, a quantitative research design will be used

and the survey will be administered to a group of teachers at primary school in Bandar

Baru Bangi. The survey will be involved a set of questionnaire being given to the

respondent to obtain data on their understanding on transformational leadership and

opinion on current practice at the school. The questionnaire is divided into three parts.

The first part set out to seek personal data of the respondent such as details on the

gender, age, field of working and also period of working experience. Two out of the

three are the most important part where the purpose of the questions was design to

analyse the teachers understanding on transformational leadership, to identify the

current practice of the school as perceived by the teachers and also the motivation

level of the teachers if transformational leadership is being practice. The total design

of the questionnaire used only 5-point Likert Scale of “Strongly Disagree”,

“Disagree”, “Neutral”, “Agree”, and “Strongly Agree”.

The study will be carried out in Bandar Baru Bangi, Selangor. The population

sample was comprised of six primary schools at Bandar Baru Bangi, Selangor.

3.4 Sampling Design

In choosing the sampling from the population for this study, simple random

sampling will be used. Teachers in six primary schools will answer the questionnaire

based on their availability and willingness. This seems to be the most appropriate

approach as the population are consists of 20 teachers in each school which mean 120

teachers in total. Nonetheless, useful result can be obtained with this limited sampling

and population even though there are prone to significant bias.

3.5 Instrumentation

There are two instruments will be used in this study which are Multifactor

Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ) and Maslow’s Hierarchy of Need. These

instruments were adopt and adapt to design the questionnaire. Multifactor Leadership

Questionnaire (MLQ) is used to analyse the teachers understanding on

transformational leadership, to identify the current practice of the school as perceived

by the teachers. Whilst Maslow’s Hierarchy of Need is used to identify the motivation

level of the teachers if transformational leadership is being practice.

3.6 Data Collection Method

The primary source of data collection of this study was done through

questionnaire as it is much easier to handle. Before the questionnaire was handed out

to the respondent, a sample of questionnaire was sent by email to the principals of the
 schools to request for their permission and cooperation to carry out the study. Once

approved, a group of teachers were assembled in a meeting room in order to have full

cooperation from them. The questionnaire then was handed out to each of the

respondent. Then researcher will explain the instruction to the respondent so that they

will have clear vision on what need to be done so that the questionnaire will not be

considered as void. The researcher then go through every section and question to

briefly explain what is being meant by the question and their objective. The whole

process took approximately around 1 hour to be done.

3.7 Data Analysis

This study used quantitative analysis to analyse all the data collected where

raw numbers are converting into meaningful data. We use Microsft Excel to store and

convert the data into SPSS version 23 so that the result can be seen and analyse easily

and constructively. In order to obtain the results of research objective one and two,

researcher will use the SPSS feature which calculate the mean score of the data,

which the high mean score represent the results of research objective one and two.

The Pearson correlation is used to know the relationship of transformational

leadership on teachers’ motivation.

3.8 Ethical Consideration

The consent was request from the schools’ Principals upon visiting the school

before giving an explanation to the teachers about the research objectives and the

method of data collection. While briefing the participants in this study, permission

was sought from them before administering the test and survey. The participants were

convinced for the information given were remaining confidential and will be used for

this study purposed only.