The relationship between school principals' innovative leadership behaviors and teacher motivation and performance

Theaim of theresearch is toexaminetherelationshipbetweeninnovativeleadershipbehaviors of schooladministratorsandteachermotivationandperformance. Theresearchwasconductedusingtherelationalscanning model, one of thescanningmodels. Theresearchpopulationconsisted of teachersworking in publicsecondaryeducationinstitutions in thecentraldistricts of Van province. Amongthesamplingmethods, thestratifiedsamplingmethodwasused. The "Innovative School LeadershipScale" developedby Akyürek and Karabey (2022) with a five-pointLikertscale, the "TeacherMotivationScale" developedby Uçar (2015) andthe "TeacherPerformanceScale" developedby Özgenel (2019) wereused as data collectiontools in thestudy. Research data wereanalyzedusingappropriatestatisticalmethods in linewiththepurpose of theresearch. As a result of theresearch, it wasfoundthattherewas a weak but significantrelationshipbetweentheinnovativeleadershipbehaviors of schoolprincipalsandteachermotivationandperformance. As a result of thefindings, it is recommendedtoprovide in-service trainingforschoolprincipals on innovativeleadershipbehaviors in ordertoincreasethemotivationandperformance of teachers in educationalorganizationsandtoenableschoolprincipalstodevelopmoreconstructiveandpositiveclimates in organizations.