The Relationship Between the Leadership Styles of School Managers and Organizational Cynicism According to the Perceptions of Secondary School Teachers
Abstract
The purpose of this research is to determine the relationship between leadership styles perceived by teachers of school principals and the organizational cynics. In the research, it has been tried to investigate how much of organizational cynicism can be attributed to leadership styles. The study was conducted according to the relational screening model. The study group selected by the purposeful sampling method consists of a total of 142 teachers working in five secondary schools in Kayseri. The Organizational Cynicism Scale was used to determine organizational cynicism. The Multicultural Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ 5x-short) was used to determine the leadership styles of school managers. Correlation coefficients were calculated for the relationship between variables, whether the variables influence each other and what the power of explanation is revealed by multiple regression analysis. According to research findings, school principals mostly exhibit transformative leadership behaviours. There is a negative relationship between the transformational leadership dimension and the cognitive and behavioural dimensions of organizational cynicism. As a result of the regression analysis performed, transformational leader's influence on cognitive and behavioural dimensions of organizational cynicism is significant.
Keywords
Leadership styles,organizational cynicism,school manager,teacher
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