Teachers' organizational commitment, job satisfaction and servant leadership

The purpose of this research is to examine the relationship between school principals' servant leadership behavior levels and teachers' organizational commitment and job satisfaction levels. For this purpose, the method of the research was determined as the relational survey model, one of the quantitative research methods. The study group of the research; it consists of 504 teachers working in primary schools in the province of Sakarya in the 2021-2022 academic year. In the data collection part of the research; "Personal Information Questionnaire", "School Principals Servant Leadership Behaviors Scale", "Organizational Commitment Scale" and "Job Satisfaction Scale" were used. SPSS 23.0 statistical package program was used in the analysis of the data. As a result of the normality test, it was found that the data showed normal distribution according to the skewness and kurtosis values. As a result of the research; a positive and significant relationship was found between school principals' servant leadership behaviors and teachers' organizational commitment and job satisfaction. Significant relationships were also found between servant leadership and organizational commitment and job satisfaction sub-dimensions. It was found that the relationship between the continuance commitment sub-dimension, which is one of the organizational commitment sub-dimensions, and other sub-dimensions is negative, and the relationship between all other sub-dimensions is positive. It was concluded that servant leadership behavior levels differed according to the branch variable, organizational commitment levels differed according to professional seniority and branch variables and job satisfaction levels differed according to gender and branch variables.