The relationship between teachers' perception of leadership capacity and organizational identification levels

The aim of this research is to determine the relationship between teachers' perceptions of leadership capacity and the level of organizational identification of teachers. In the relational screening model, 2041 teachers working in Turgutlu , Manisa province in 2015 - 2016 academic year constitute the nature of the research while 444 teachers working in these schools constitute the sample of the research. A simple random sampling method was used in the research. The data were collected by the "Leadership Capacity Scale" and the "Organizational Identification Scale". Confirmatory factor analysis was used to test the appropriateness of sample sizes of the scale in the study and the scales obtained were verified. To analyze the data, t-Test, one-way analysis of variance, Pearson Moments Multiplication Coefficient and multiple regression analysis were used. According to the results of the research; The perceptions of teachers' school leadership capacity are at a level changing into this way. According to the dimensions of school leadership capacity, while the perception in the dimension of distributive leadership has begun to change in this way , the shared school vision is at a pretty advanced level in terms of business association and collective responsibility and perceived student achievement. Teachers' level of organizational identification is moderate. According to the dimensions of organizational identification, perception about the dimension of harmony is at a high level, whereas perception about the dimension of identification and internalization is at a medium level. Also, according to the results of the research, there is a moderate correlation between positive perceptions of teachers' leadership capacities for schools and perceptions of organizational identification. The result is that the dimensions of school leadership capacity have a meaningful effect on organizational identification. It can be said that the dimension of school leadership capacity is a significant predictor of organizational identification of distributive leadership.