INVESTIGATING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP AND ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT OF THE HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS IN GERMI

The main objective of this research was to examine the relationship between transformational leadership style and organizational commitment of Germy's secondary school teacher in the academic year 2011-2012. The sizeof statistical population was 400. The determined sample size by the Cochran formula was 196. The sample was selected through simple random sampling. Bass and Avolio's multifactor leadership questionnaire and Porter's organizational commitment questionnaire were used in collecting data. The type of this study was descriptive. After collecting and analyzing data using SPS, the results showed that there was a significant positive relationship between transformational leadership and organizational commitment of teachers. In addition, stepwise regression analysis demonstrated that among the components of transformational leadership, the idealized influence had the greatest impact on organizational commitment of teachers.

Keywords:

transformational leadership , organizational commitment , secondary school teachers