explaining situation of transformational leadership and its relationship with innovative behavioral of smart schools managers

Subject Areas : Educational Science

Zakarya Ahmadian ^{1 *} , alireza galeei ² , zahra azizitirab ³ , esmail talebi ⁴

1 - PhD Student in Educational Management, Department of Educational Sciences, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Urmia University, Urmia, Iran
2 - Department of Educational Sciences, Faculty of Literature & Humanities, Urmia University, Urmia, Iran
3 - PhD Student in Educational Management, Department of Educational Sciences, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Urmia University, Urmia, Iran
4 - Department of educational sciences, Faculty of Literature & Humanities, urmia University, Urmia, Iran

Received: 2018-02-01 Accepted : 2019-09-02 Published : 2019-08-23

Keywords: Transformational Leadership, School managers, Smart schools, Innovative behavioral,

Abstract :

this research was conducted whit the aim explaining situation of transformational leadership and its relationship with innovative behavioral of smart schools managers. The research method is descriptive-correlation. The study population includes all smart elementary and high schools teachers that was 935 persons of district 1 and 2 of Uremia city. Among them we selected sample of 272 people by using Multi-stage cluster sampling method. For data collection we have used questionnaire of transformational leadership properties measurement due to bass and Avolio theory (2000) and questionnaire of innovative behavioral measurement of canter (1988). Validity of questionnaires was confirmed by using Face validity method And reliability coefficients for transformational leadership and innovative behavior has been determined to be 92% and 95% by using Cronbach's alpha method. the results were statistically analyzed by using two methods: descriptive (such as frequency, frequency persentage, Average and ....) and Inferential (such as one- sample t test,Pearson's correlation coefficient, Regression, One-way analysis of variance). The results represented that in most teachers point of view , smart schools managers transformational leadership and inovative behaviour charistristics were at moderate level. There is a positive and significant relationship between transformational leadership variable on one side and its five-dimensional on the other side and innovative behavioral of smart schools managers in level of confidence 99%. Among five leadership components, mental persuasion played the most important role in prognosticating innovative behavior and ideal charistristics was in second priority.