مرکز منطقه ای اطلاع رساني علوم و فناوري - Leadership and Organizational Commitment in Educational Context: A Meta Analytic Review

Abstract :

The purpose of this meta-analytic review is to examine the magnitude of the relation between principals’ leadership styles and teacher commitment with moderator variables and to evaluate that relation in Turkish context. A meta-analysis technique was used to synthesize the results of eight independent studies. In this meta-analysis, we only had eight studies to analyze and found that the relation between leadership styles of principal and teacher commitment is positive but weak. It is generally known that there is a positive relation between these two variables. That is the case for educational context. An important point we observed in the process of literature review is that while the magnitude of the relation is weak or moderate in educational context, it is strong in business organizations. According to our moderator variables, as in most studies, transformational and instructional leadership have a stronger relation with teacher commitment than the other styles. This finding is supported by most of the studies. In third level school districts, the relation between leadership and teacher commitment is weaker than the other levels. The last point is that individual behavior levels affect the relation between leadership and teacher commitment more than organizational behavior levels.