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This study embarks on investigation on the relationship between group leader’s leadership style, teacher’s competencies and job performance in the context of public higher vocational colleges in Zhejiang province of China and also explores on how leadership style of group leaders may affect teacher’s job performance under the influence of teacher’s competencies. A pilot study was conducted among 150 teachers in public higher vocational colleges in Zhejiang Province which represents the characteristics of the population and provides a reliable basis for the subsequent large-scale study. This study adopted a survey method by using simple random sampling method for the data collection. The reliability and validity of the instrument were examined through content validity, convergent validity, and discriminant validity and structural validity analyses were conducted through factor analysis to test whether the structure of the questionnaire is consistent with theoretical expectations. Reliability based on expert assessment and the data was analyzed using the statistical software SPSS version 22. The result shows that the survey instrument is reliable and valid and is able to help the researcher to explore the association of group leader’s leadership style, teacher’s competencies and job performance among China’s higher vocational colleges.
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