Distributed Leadership as a Post-Heroic Leadership: A Study on Educational Organizations

• In Event: 29.025 - Perceptions of Distributed Leadership and Educational Outcomes

Abstract

The main purpose of this study was to test the theoretical model scrutinizing the structural causal relations between high school teachers’ perceptions about distributed leadership, organizational trust, organizational support and school success. The research sample comprised 352 high school teachers with various fields working at 22 different highs schools in the province of Eskişehir, Turkey selected through stratified sampling strategy. Path analysis results with acceptable goodness of fit indices indicated that as organizational trust increases distributed leadership perceptions increase, as distributed leadership perception of teachers increases organizational support increases, and lastly as organizational support perception increases school success increases in high schools.
Key words: Distributed leadership, organizational trust, organizational support, school success.

Authors

• Derya Yilmaz, Eskisehir Osmangazi University

• Selahattin Turan, Eskisehir Osmangazi University

• Gökhan Kılıçoğlu, Eskisehir Osmangazi University