Examination of the impact of transformational leadership on employees' job attitudes: explaining the mediating role of organizational identity

Document Type : مقالات

Authors

• Sanjar Salajegheh ¹
• soleiman ahmadzadeh ²

¹ Islamic Azad University of Kerman Branch

² دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد کرمان

https://doi.org/10.22067/pmt.v6i12.30580

Abstract

Employees' job attitudes play an important role in realizing the organizational goals. One of important factors in increasing organizational commitment and employees' extra-job behaviors is to secure organizational identity. One of jobs requiring a high level of organizational identity, loyalty, organizational commitment and doing extra-job behaviors is teaching in high-schools. Realization of this job requires transformational leaders. On this basis, the aim of this research is to examine the impact of transformational leadership on organizational identity and its consequences on job attitudes namely organizational commitment and organizational citizenship behavior among the high-school teachers. The research method is description and correlation using questionnaires as the method of collecting data. The population includes 1100 high-school teachers of the West Tehran selected by using simple random sampling (160 teachers). Spearman correlation method, regression coefficient and modeling structural equations have been used for testing hypotheses. The results indicate that the transformational leadership has a positive and significant on organizational identity, and organizational identity causes increasing organizational commitment and organizational citizenship behavior. Also indirect impact of transformational leadership of managers on the high-school teachers' attitudes namely organizational commitment and organizational citizenship behavior through organizational identity is stronger than its direct impact..

Keywords

• Transformational leadership
• Organizational identity
• Organizational citizenship behavior
• Organizational commitment

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