The Effect of Principals’ Distributed Leadership on Organizational Commitment of Teachers with Mediating Role of Organizational-based Self-esteem in Khorramabad Elementary Schools

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1 Graduated from Lorestan University with a master's degree in educational management

2 Assistant Professor of Educational Management, Lorestan University

3 Associate Professor of Educational Management, Lorestan University.

Abstract

The present study was made with the aim of improving organizational commitment from the perspective of distributed leadership and with a view to perceptions of organizational-based self-esteem. First the role of mediator, meaning organizational-based self-esteem in the impact of distributed leadership Principals on organizational commitment teachers was investigated. Then, continue to test the role of gender as a mediator in the model was reviewed. The current study is a descriptive-correlational research with Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) approach. The population of the study consisted of all elementary school teachers in Khorramabad city (1258 teachers), the selected sample included 278 teachers using Morgan table; and with a view to a maximum of free parameters in assumed routes structural equations models study; was chosen by random stratified sampling method. Data were collected through questionnaires distributed leadership, organizational-based self-esteem and organizational commitment that constructs validity and reliability using Cronbach's alpha and composite reliability was confirmed. The data were analyzed using the software SPSS23 and AMOS 23. Analyzing the role of organizational-based self-esteem as a mediator showed distributed leadership principals, in addition to their direct impact on organizational commitment teachers; by organizational-based self-esteem of teachers, has an indirect role in explaining their organizational commitment. Multiple groups’ analysis also showed that the gender variable of teachers modifies the effect of distributed leadership principals on organizational-based self-esteem teachers.
 

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