Developments in Transformational School Leadership Research: A Systematic Review

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to outline the nature of empirical base on transformational leadership in Turkey. The present study included a total of 109 graduate theses conducted on school principals’ transformational leadership behaviors between 2000 and 2019 and released in the Council of Higher Education’s (CoHE) database. Results revealed that an important body of research investigated the relationship between transformational leadership and job satisfaction and organizational commitment. Authors’ suggestions to policymakers and practitioners were often about enabling further in-service training activities and providing school principals with various opportunities to study for a master's degree. Suggestions from quantitative studies echoed the need for conducting relevant studies on different samples and expanding qualitative studies to inquiry into transformational leadership. Results, therefore, mirrored the fact that the empirical base on transformational leadership is lacking in terms of mediator and moderator effects of various variables along with the antecedents and results of transformational leadership.

Keywords

• Transformational leadership
• school principal
• systematic review
• graduate thesis

Dönüşümcü Okul Liderliği Araştırmalarındaki Gelişmeler: Sistematik Bir Derleme

Öz

Bu çalışma Türkiye’de dönüşümcü liderlik alanındaki ampirik gelişimin doğasını ortaya koymayı amaçlamaktadır. Bu araştırma 2000-2019 yılları arasında Yükseköğretim Kurulu (YÖK) tez merkezi veri tabanında okullarda dönüşümcü liderliğe yönelik yayınlanan toplam 109 lisansüstü tezini kapsamaktadır. Sonuçlar dönüşümcü liderlik ile iş doyumu ve örgütsel bağlılık arasındaki ilişkinin sıklıkla çalışıldığı görülmüştür. Bununla birlikte dönüşümcü liderlik ile örgütsel vatandaşlık, okul kültürü, okul iklimi, informal ilişkiler, duygusal zekâ, örgütsel imaj ve motivasyon arasındaki ilişki bir dizi araştırmaya konu olmuştur. Araştırmalarda politika yapıcı ve uygulayıcılara müdürlerin dönüşümcü liderlik davranışlarının geliştirilmesine yönelik genel olarak hizmet içi eğitim ve lisansüstü eğitim olanaklarının sunulması gibi öneriler sunulmuştur. Öte yandan araştırmacılara yönelik önerilerde sıklıkla kavramın farklı örneklemlerde çalışılması ve nitel araştırmaların yaygınlaştırılması vurgulanmıştır. Bu bağlamda dönüşümcü liderliğin öncülleri ve sonuçlarının yanı sıra aracı ve düzenleyici etkilerin oldukça sınırlı düzeyde incelenmiş olduğu görülmektedir. Bir okulun etkili olabilmesi ve öğrenci başarısına katkı sağlayabilmesi için okul müdürlerinin dönüşümcü liderlik davranışları sergilemeleri önem arz etmektedir.

Anahtar Kelimeler

• Dönüşümcü liderlik
• okul müdürü
• sistematik derleme
• lisansüstü tez

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