Impact of supporting and improving leadership approach on organizational loyalty (case study on Çubuk province, Ankara)

This study aims to research and to evaluate the impact of supporting and improvingleadership approach of school principals on organizational loyalty of teachers according to theteachers? perception. The gender and the school types are taken into consideration in the evaulation.The population of the research consists of 509 teachers working at the primary andsecondary schools in Çubuk province, Ankara. The sample of the research is made up of the 180teachers chosen randomly from 9 schools.?Survey on Supporting and Improving Leadership Features? for designating supporting andimproving leadership levels of school principals and ?Scale of Organizational Loyalty? aiming tomeasure the organizational loyalty of teachers are used to retrieve data.In analysis of data, Pearson Product-Moment Correlation Coefficient, Simple LinearRegression Analysis, Independent t-test and Frequency and Percent Distribution tests are used.According to research results, organizational loyalty and perceptions for supporting andimproving leadership features of teachers do not vary due to gender parameter. While there is norelationship between type of school and adaptation and adoption scope of organizational loyalty, thereare ignificant differences between sense of identification and perception for supporting and improvingleadership approach in accordance with type of school. It is determined that sense of identification andperception for supporting and improving leadership approach of teachers working at secondaryschools are higher than those of working at primary schools. Supporting and improving leadershipapproach significantly affects the adaptation of organizational loyalty in the negative direction, on theother hand, it affects sense of identification and adoption scope of loyalty in the positive direction.