Conceptualizing the Mediating Paths Connecting School Leadership to Teachers' Affective Organizational Commitment

• In Event: School Leadership and Networks

Abstract

The study aims to conceptualize, using evidence-based data, the mediating paths connecting school leadership to teachers' affective and normative organizational commitment (OC). A systematic criteria-based review located quantitative empirical studies on teachers’ OC published in peer-review journals during two decades. Data analysis resulted in an integrative conceptual model where two central paths – socio-affective factors and teachers' psychological capital – mediated the impact of effective school leadership on teachers' OC. This synthesized model, with its high level generalizability, extends the scope of previous research, and may stimulate interest in new empirical explorations in teachers' OC research.

Authors

• Izhak Berkovich, The Open University of Israel

• Ronit Bogler, The Open University of Israel