Transformational and transactional leadership effects on teachers' job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and organizational citizenship behavior in primary schools: The Tanzanian case

TLDR

This article examines how transformational and transactional leadership affect teachers’ job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and organizational citizenship behavior in Tanzanian primary schools. The study tests a model using data from a sample of Tanzanian primary school teachers. Regression analyses reveal that transformational leadership strongly influences job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and organizational citizenship behavior, adds predictive power beyond transactional leadership, and that job satisfaction mediates the effects of transformational leadership on commitment and citizenship behavior, with implications and future research directions discussed.

Abstract

This article examines the effects of transformational and transactional leadership on teachers' job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and organizational citizenship behavior in the context of schools in a specific developing country context, that of Tanzania. It does so by testing a model of such effects using a set of data collected from a sample of Tanzanian primary school teachers. Regression analyses show transformational leadership dimensions to have strong effects on teachers' job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and organizational citizenship behavior. Transformational leadership had significant add-on effects to transactional leadership in prediction of job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and organizational citizenship behavior. Job satisfaction appears to be a mediator of the effects of transformational leadership on teachers' organizational commitment and organizational citizenship behavior. Implications and directions for future research are discussed.