Volume 30, Issue 2, 2021
DOI: 10.24205/03276716.2020.4008
THE EFFECT OF SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS’ TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP AND TECHNOLOGICAL LEADERSHIP STYLES ON TEACHERS’ ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT
Abstract
The aim of our study is to examine the transformative leadership styles of educational institution administrators and the effects of technological leadership styles on their organizational commitment. The data of the research were obtained from 2240 teachers working in primary schools operating under the Ministry of National Education in the city of Bursa, Y?ld?r?m district during the 2016-2017 academic year. The analysis of the findings was performed with the SPSS versiyon 24.0 program, and Kolmogorov-Smirnov, Shapiro-Wilk, QQ plot chart, Skewness, Kurtsosis, Levene, t-test, ANOVA, Tukey and Pearson correlation analyses were performed.
According to the findings of the research, school administrators and teachers become role models for their followers, focus more on concepts such as efficiency and quality, reveal transformative, interactive and liberating leadership styles, and their organizational commitment increases in case of perfection of their professional development, and they are not motivated about the goals and objectives of the organization, cases where are not encouraged to approach events, situations and problems with a new and different perspective, transformational leadership is not shown in today's conditions where change is experienced in a dizzying way, science and technology are developing and spreading extremely fast, leadership behavior results are negative and visionary leadership is not carried out. Organizational commitment has been found to decrease.
Keywords
Education, Teacher, Technology, Leadership, Transformational leadership, Organizational commitment