The foci of this study were to: (1) identify the relationship between the job satisfaction/dissatisfaction of assistant principals and teachers and the bases of power they ascribe to their principals; and (2) investigate the degree to which the job satisfaction/dissatisfaction of assistant principals and teachers can be explained by the bases of power they ascribe to their principals. The sample used in this study was randomly selected from population of the Community City Public School System and was comprised of assistant principals and teachers in twenty-two secondary schools. Two instruments were used in this study. The first instrument was the Educational Work Components Study which had two discrete parts whose items were designed from respondents perceptions of motivator variables in their job and need for hygiene and situation. The second instrument was the Power Scale Index which was designed to elicit from respondents the reasons for complying with the request of a superior. The strength of the relationships between the bases of power variables and job satisfaction/dissatisfaction was tested by using multiple regression analysis. Regression analysis allowed the analysis of both the separate and combined effects of the base of power variables simultaneously on job satisfaction/dissatisfaction. It was found that there were for all practical purposes, no differences in the strength or degree of the multiple correlations of the bases of power variables, whether those independent variables were treated in the stepwise regression or the hierarchical regression. None of the bases of power variables emerged as a significantly related predictor of the four motivator or two hygiene factors. Problems with interpretation of the results possibly occurred because of differences in methodology between this study and those cited in Chapter 2, and some inadequacies in the EWCS and the Power Scale Index.