Relationship between empowering leadership behaviours of primary school directors and organizational commitment of teachers: Mediation role of psychological empowerment (The case of Ankara)

The aim of this study is to identify perception levels of primary school teachers who work in the central counties of Ankara about empowering leadership behaviours and organizational commitment as well as to determine whether psychological empowerment has a mediation role in their commitment and to find out the relationship between all these variables. The research is a descriptive survey study. The sample includes 523 teachers who work in state schools in the central counties of Ankara. Data collection instrument consists of ?Personal Details?, ?Empowering Leadership Scale?, ?Organizational Commitment Scale? and ?Psychological Empowerment Scale? sections. In order to analyze subproblems of the study Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, Independent Sample t test, One Way ANOVA, Scheffe test, Levene test and Regresyon analysis are used and to compare the harmony of the models Comparative Fit Index (CFI) is used. It has been found out that male teachers have higher perception levels in terms of ?coaching for innovative performans? dimension in empowering leadership dimensions, teachers who have been working for five years or less have a lower emotional commitment and teachers who have been working less than one year generally have higher perception levels about psychological empowering than other teachers. It is seen that model 1 that examines the relationship between empowering leadership and organizational commitment is more effective than model 2 that examines mediation variability role of psychological empowering in this relationship. In the light of the findings in order to increase teachers? emotional commitment which is a type of desired commitment, administrators should give the information teachers need, spend time for their development, trust them to decide by themselves and help teachers feel that results of what they do have important impacts on the realization of organizational objectives.