The relationship between transformational leadership of schools’ managers and teachers’ performance: exploting the moderator role of public service motivation

Abstract

Implementing the Fundamental Reform Document of Education (FRDE) requires using transformational leadership style towards promoting employees performance and especially teachers' performance. This research aimed to examine the effect of transformational leadership on job performance with the moderating role of public service motivation in secondary schools teachers. The methodology is descriptive and correlative and statistical population is teachers of secondary schools in Sirjan city to number of 726 that by using Morgan table, 251 teachers were selected through stratified random method. For gathering data used 3 standard questionnaires including Bass and Avolio(2000) for transformational leadership, Paterson(1992) for job performance, and Alonso and Lewis(2001) for public service motivation. To ensure of questionnaires reliability was used Cronbach's Alpha coefficient and composite reliability (CR) index and their reliability was confirmed. Also for ensuring about questionnaires validity was used convergent and divergent validity and average variance extracted (AVE) index and confirmative factor analysis. For analyzing data, were used structural equation modelling by Amos software. The results showed that public service motivation moderates the effect of transformational leadership on teachers' job performance. Also the positive effect of transformational leadership on job performance, the positive effect of transformational leadership on public service motivation, and the positive effect of public service motivation on job performance are significant.