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The study aimed to find out the degree of the spread of the phenomenon of job hypocrisy in schools and ways to overcome it from principals’ perceptions in the First Zarqa Education Directorate, and to identify the impact of the variables (gender, educational qualification, and years of experience) on that. The population and sample of the study consisted of (148) – all public-school principals in First Zarqa Directorate of Education during the academic year 2020/2021. Fifteen public schools in Zarqa Governorate were chosen by the purposive sampling method to conduct the interview for answering the open question. Also, a questionnaire was used for collecting data. In its first part, the questionnaire included some demographic variables, and the second part of it included (38) items distributed into two domains with (20) items for hypocrisy by saying, and (18) items for the domain of hypocrisy by doing. The results of the study revealed that the degree of spread of the phenomenon of job hypocrisy in schools among teachers from the principals’ perceptions in the First Zarqa Education Directorate came with a moderate degree in both domains of saying and doin. The results also showed that there were no statistically significant differences due to the effect of the variables (gender, educational qualification) in the two domains and the total degree, while there were statistically significant differences attributed to the impact of years of experience in hypocrisy by doing and job hypocrisy, and the differences came in favor of less than ten years, and no statistically significant differences in hypocrisy by saying. Also, the results concluded that providing incentives and deepening employees’ sense that they are partners in setting school goals and allowing employees to participate in decision-making are among the most important ways to overcome the spread of the phenomenon of job hypocrisy in schools.