The mediating role of job satisfaction in the relationship between school administrators' servant leadership behaviors and teachers' organizational commitment: A structural equation modeling

In this study, it was aimed to determine the mediating role of job satisfaction in the effect of school administrators' servant leadership behaviors and teachers' organizational commitment. In this context, the subjects of servant leadership, organizational commitment and job satisfaction are examined in detail. In this study, which was tried to be structured with the relational survey model - one of the quantitative research methods - the teachers working in all primary and secondary schools in the city center of Batman were accepted as the target population of the research.Due to the accessibility of the target population, scales were distributed to all schools and a study group was formed with the participation of 550 teachers who voluntarily gave feedback.The data of the research were collected through 'the servant leadership scale', 'the organizational commitment scale' and 'the Minnesota job satisfaction scale'. When the results of the analysis were examined, it was understood that the servant leadership scale of school administrators in the moral integrity sub-dimension; teachers' organizational commitment scale in the emotional commitment sub-dimension ; On the other hand,the job satisfaction scale in the internal satisfaction sub-dimension had the highest average . As a result of structural equation modeling,It is understood that school administrators' servant leadership behaviors have a moderate positive effect on teachers' organizational commitment and job satisfaction. However, it is understood that job satisfaction has a moderate positive effect on organizational commitment. In addition, it was determined in the study that job satisfaction has a full mediation effect on the relationship between servant leadership and organizational commitment.