Impact of Teachers’ Choice of Teaching Profession on Their Followership Styles

Abstract

The teaching profession seems like a fun if served with interest to interact with learners and to inculcate morals and values in them. A motivated teacher has the capacity to contribute massively towards the development of learners and improved learning. However, many public school teachers in Pakistan want to shift their profession indicating lack of exemplary followership that is a desired quality particularly among the teachers. Therefore, causal comparative survey was arranged using self-developed followership scale to evaluate the situation critically. Conveniently accessible 346 school teachers have provided the data. Findings revealed that 53% teachers joined teaching as first choice while 47% as lateral choices. Moreover, the number of teachers having first choice of teaching profession were increased with the betterment of followership style of the teachers. Hence, preference should be given to candidates having high level of choice to serve in teaching profession. Moreover, professional development programs may be organized for existing teachers having poor followership.