The effects of primary school administrators' transformational leadership roles on organizational citizenship of teachers

The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of primary school administrators? transformational leadership roles on organizational citizenship level of teachers who work in Afyonkarahisar during 2011-2012 education year. Furthermore, the effects of variables such as gender, service year and educational level were examined. There are a total of 432 teachers working in primary schools and chosen with convenience sampling.To identify the effects of the transformational leadership role of the elemantary school administrators on the teachers? organizational behaviours, Principal Leadership Style Inventory (Leithwood and Jantzi, 2000) which is adapted to Turkish by İbrahim Kurtuluş (2007) has been used in the first part of the scale. It has 28 items associated with transformational leadership. In the second part of the scale Organizational Citizenship Behaviours Scale (Altuntaş and Ülkü, 2010) has been used. It consists 24 items. There are totally 52 items in the scale. After the data has been collected, affirmative factor analysis (with AMOS) and reliability analysis, t-test, ANOVA have been used.The result shows that there isn?t a meaningful difference between transformational leardership?s dimensions which are vision and inspiration, supporting and motivation, and organizational citizenship?s dimension which is scrupulousness in terms of gender, service year, education level. However, there is a meaningful difference helping dimension of organizational citizenship in terms of education level.Key Words: Leadership, Transformational Leadership, Organizational Citizenship, School Administrator