The relationship between school principals' transformatinal leadership approaches and Hofstede's national cultural dimensions

In this study, it is aimed to determine the relationship between transformational leadership approaches of school administrators working at public schools in Siirt province and Hofstede's national cultural dimensions, such as power distance, collectivism, masculinity, uncertainty avoidance and long-term orientation, according to the teachers' views. The target universe of this study is the teachers working at primary schools in Siirt city and counties. It was decided on choosing samples by applying "stratified sampling" method. 384 teachers from Central county and from Kurtalan, Eruh and Pervari counties constituted the sample group of the study. In the research, the 5-point Likert-type transformational leadership scale developed by Çetiner (2008) was used as the data collection tool and the 26-item 5-point Likert-type cultural values scale examining the teachers' and administrators' views on cultural values developed by Saylık (2019)was applied. As a result of the research, it was revealed that there is a positive and low level relationship between transformational leadership and cultural values. Key Words: Leadership, Transformational Leadership, School Administrator, Culture, Power Distance, Collectivism, Uncertainty Avoidance, Masculinity, Long-term Orientation