SCHOOL PRINCIPAL LEADERSHIP STYLES AND TEACHER ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT AMONG PERFORMING SCHOOLS

Abstract

School efficiency and effectiveness are relate and influenced by principal leadership styles. However, it is unsure whether principal leadership has direct impact on teacher organizational commitment resulting in school performance. This study attempts to investigate the effects of principle leadership styles on teacher organizational commitment among performing schools in the state of Perak, Malaysia. Data were collects from 240 teachers from 19 performing schools using a fixed-alternative questionnaire. The data collected were analyses by analytical software called SmartPLS. It was founds that transformational leadership (TF) has a significant positive impact on affective commitment (AC) and continuance commitment (CC) but not on normative commitment (NC). Transactional leadership (TS) has a significant positive impact on AC only, and not on CC and NC while nurturant leadership (NT) has significant impact on AC and NC only and not on CC. Therefore, the most influential leadership style in performing schools is TF while NT is perceives to be the most common leadership style by the teachers.