The Impact of School Principals on Teachers’ Organizational Culture Perceptions and Organizational Citizenship Behaviors

Abstract

The aim of this research is to detect whether the participatory, supportive and guiding leadership styles of primary school principals have effect upon their organizational culture and organizational citizenship behaviour. Survey method is used in the research. The research population is composed of 1219 primary school teachers under the Ministry of National Education of TRNC, while the sample is composed of 448 teachers selected from different provinces. “Scale of leadership styles” is used to maintain leadership styles and for the leader culture level in schools. Data for the level of organizational citizenship behavior evaluated by teachers is gathered through the “scale of organizational citizenship behavior”. In analyzing data, arithmetic mean and standard deviation values were used as identifying statistics, regression analysis was used as well and the research data was analyzed using the SPSS program. As a result of the analysis, it was determined that school principals used more participatory and supportive leadership styles in turn. All three leadership styles are found effective on teachers’ organizational culture perceptions as significant predictors on the other hand organizational citizenship behaviors only predict participatory and supportive leadership styles.