Abstract
The current study aims to determine whether there is a relationship between transformational leadership and teachers’ motivation and whether this relationship if any, differs significantly based on various demographic variables. Within the framework of this aim, two scales were applied to 418 teachers working at primary, middle, and high schools in Istanbul. The data collection tools used in the study are the “Multidimensional Work Motivational Scale” developed by Gagné et al. (2010), and the “Transformational Leadership Scale” developed by Brestrich (2000). During the analysis of the data collected through scales, mean, frequency, and descriptive values such as standard deviation were used as well as independent groups t-test, multivariate variance analysis (MANOVA), and canonical correlation analysis. The results showed that as teachers perceive their principals as transformational leaders, their motivation including their inner motivation decreases. Besides, teachers’ perceptions of the transformational leadership skills of the principals change according to time of working in their current school, education levels and gender. It was also explored that the motivation status of female teachers was higher than male teachers.
Highlights
It is a fact that globalization has influenced all areas of communities from economy to politics
That’s why the current study aims to inspect the relationship between transformational leadership and teachers’ motivation
The questions that the current study aims to answer are as follows: 1) Do teachers’ perceptions of the transformational leadership characteristics of principals show a significant difference according to gender, age, occupation time, working time at school, level of education, and type of school worked?
Summary
It is a fact that globalization has influenced all areas of communities from economy to politics. Cultural, technological, and economic factors have had an impact on the emergence of the globalization process (McBurnie, 2002) That there both elements leading to globalization and outcomes of globalization in different areas, it has to be noted that organizations that take on the role of surviving function of societies in a community have to deal with outcomes of globalization. These outcomes contribute to components of organizations’ and societies’ changes. In education institutions, which are affected by globalization, transformational leadership is significant, as it motivates teachers to keep up with the new practices in worldwide education
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