The Effect of School Principals' Agile Leadership Behaviors on Entrepreneurial Teacher Behaviors through Innovative Organizations

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to reveal the mediating role of innovative organizations in the effect of school administrators' agile leadership behaviors on entrepreneurial teacher behaviors. Based on the relationship between the variables, a model was proposed and the proposed model was tested. Before testing the SEM model, the relational survey model was used to determine the relationship between the variables and the model was tested. The study group of the research consists of 479 teachers working in Kartal, Tuzla, Maltepe and Sultanbeyli districts of Istanbul in 2023. According to the research findings, the agile leadership characteristics of school principals positively affect the entrepreneurial behaviors of teachers and the innovative structure of schools. As a result of the analysis of SEM model, innovative organizations have a partial mediating role between agile leadership behaviors of school principals and entrepreneurial teacher behaviors. This research contributes both theoretically and practically to the effect of agile leadership on teachers' entrepreneurial behaviors and innovative organizational structure of organizations, and the effect of innovative organizations on entrepreneurial teacher behaviors. In the light of the findings, implications related to agile leadership, teachers' entrepreneurial behaviors and innovative organizational structures are discussed and suggestions are made for future research.