A Study on the Relationship between Transformational and Transactional Leadership and Organizational Commitment of Teachers

A random simple 320 elementary school teachers (160 male and 160 female) fromdistrict 1 of Shiraz school system were selected and implemented two scales: a) Bass’s(1985) Multifactor Leadership questionnaire (MLQ): this instrument was translated intoPersian and its validity and reliability was re-confirmed by the researcher. B) Maudy,steers, and Porter,s Commitment scale (1974), the Validity and reliability of this scale wasconfirmed by Mortazavi (1372). The gathered data were analyzed and the following resultwere revealed: 1) There was found a significant relationship between transformationalleadership and organizational commitment (r=0/33, p<0/0001); 2) No significantrelationship was found between transactional leadership and organizational commitment; 3)Two way analysis of variance showed no interaction between transformational andtransactional leadership and organizational commitment; 4) Male and femaletransformational leaders differed in the extent of their effects on teachers commitment tothe organization: That is female leaders more effective on commitment of teachers to theorganization (t=4.40 df=245 P