The Relationship between Transformational Leadership and Organizational Commitment

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to determine the relationship between transformational leadership of vocational school principals on vocational teachers’ organizational commitment. A random sample of 340 vocational teachers responded to a three-part instrument (the transformational leadership questionnaire, the organizational commitment questionnaire and a demographic section). Means, standard deviations, Pearson correlations and stepwise regression analysis were used to analyse the data. The findings indicated that a strong, positive and significant relationship exists between transformational leadership (overall) and the organizational commitment dimension. Furthermore, the relationship between each component of transformational leadership and organizational commitment was found to be moderate, positive and significant. Finally, it is suggested that more workshops and training courses in transformational leadership should be sponsored by the Ministry of Education in Jordan to promote organizational commitment among vocational teachers.

The research on educational leadership and management in the Arab world since the 1990s: A systematic review

“…Since the 1980s, there has been significant growth in the number of studies about the model of transformational leadership that constructed vision‐building, intellectual stimulation and individual consideration as the main characteristics of leaders in successful organisations (Kouzes & Posner, ). In education, two decades later, a new conceptualisation of leadership in terms of moral leadership that elucidates some reference to transformational leadership and to moral and social justice issues as equality, discrimination, equity and class, emerged (Lindsey & Lindsey, ; Khasawneh et al., ). While most of the research on these dimensions has been conducted in Western countries, we found nine papers that examined transformational leadership or moral aspects of leadership, explicitly and implicitly, in Arab countries.…”

“…'political', 'cultural', 'transformational', 'moral' and 'instructional') have been conceptualised to propose the 'right' leadership style and the desirable leader-follower relations in educational organisations (Stoll & Temperley, 2009;Furman, 2012). Likewise, collaborative, developmental and transformational approaches to EDLM have been widely advanced in many educational systems, based on principles of equality and equity (Fletcher, Greenwood, Grimley & Parkhill, 2011;Lindsey & Lindsey, 2011;Khasawneh, Al-Omari & Abu-Tineh, 2012;Yang, 2014).…”

Investigation of Job Satisfaction, Organizational Commitment and SelfEsteem of Physical Education Teachers According to the Gender

“…Teacher organizational commitment has been studied thoroughly throughout the years because of its effect on a number of significant organizational outputs, such as intention to leave and absenteeism (negative effect), retention, performance and person-organization fit (positive effect) (e.g. Khasawneh, Omari & Abu-Tineh, 2012;Nir, 2002;Sezgin, 2009). …”

The Effect of Educational Leadership on Organizational Variables: A Meta–Analysis Study in the Sample of Turkey

“…This finding is in line with the views that the organizational commitment perception, which is related to the employees seeing themselves as a permanent member of the organization and showing the attitudes that integrate them with the organization, is affected by leadership behaviors (Meyer & Allen, 1991;Mowday, Porter, & Steers, 1982;Wiener, 1982) and the results of many studies also imply large positive effect of educational leadership on organizational commitment (Avolio, Zhu, Koh, & Bhatia, 2004;Dunn, Dastoor, & Sims, 2012;Howell & Hall-Merenda, 1999;Hulpia, Devos, & Keer, 2011;Jackson, Meyer, & Wang, 2013;Kirkpatrick & Locke, 1996;Khasawneh, Omari, & Abu-Tineh, 2012;Leithwood & Sun, 2012;Lok & Crawford, 2004;Thamrin, 2012). One of the important findings of this study is the direction and strength of the effect of educational leadership on organizational commitment.…”

“…It is possible to find researches measuring the relationship between educational leadership and organizational commitment perceived by teachers (Avolio, Zhu, Koh, & Bhatia, 2004;Dunn, Dastoor, & Sims, 2012;Howell & Hall-Merenda, 1999;Hulpia, Devos, & Keer, 2011;Jackson, Meyer, & Wang, 2013;Kirkpatrick & Locke, 1996;Khasawneh, Omari, & Abu-Tineh, 2012;Leithwood & Sun, 2012;Lok & Crawford, 2004;Thamrin, 2012). Researchers often believe that there is a relationship between the behaviors of school administrators and teachers' organizational commitment.…”