Headmasters’ transformational leadership style, teachers’ organizational commitment and job satisfaction: Mediating Role of organizational commitment at Tamil National Primary Schools in Kedah

Abstract

In this technological era, educational institutions are facing many challenges to improve the performance of the institutions through successful leadership behaviour. The effective leaders play an essential and important role in accomplishing the target goals for the betterment of organizations through making subordinates committed and satisfied with their jobs. The aim of this conceptual paper is to investigate the influence of headmasters’ transformational leadership style on teachers’ organizational commitment and job satisfaction and to find the influence of organizational commitment as a mediator between the relationship of transformational leadership and job satisfaction in Primary Tamil Schools in the state of Kedah. The measuring instruments used in the study were Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ Form 5X), The three-Component Model (TCM) survey for organizational commitment and  Job Satisfaction Survey. The stratified random sampling technique will be used to collect data from 346 teachers from primary Tamil schools through survey methods. Data were analyzed descriptively by using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) and utilized Structural Equation Modeling technique on higher order constructs to test the hypotheses of the study by using Smart PLS statistical software.  The findings of the study revealed that headmaster’s transformational leadership style has significant influence on teachers’ organizational commitment and job satisfaction and teachers’ organizational commitment has significant influence on teachers’ job satisfaction as well.  The finding of the study also proved that organizational commitment significantly mediates between the relationship of transformational leadership and job satisfaction.  This study contributes empirical evidences for leaders ( Headmasters) to be more efficient and suitable relationship with teachers’ job satisfaction and organizational commitment.