Empowerment as a Mediator between Instructional Leadership and Teachers’ Organizational Citizenship Behavior

Authors : Anat BARTH, Sigalit TSEMACH

Pages : 335-371

Doi:10.30828/real.1282746

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Publication Date : 2023-06-29

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :The study explores the mediating effect of teacher’s empowerment on the relationship between instructional leadership insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(IL); to teacher’s organizational citizenship behavior insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(OCB); toward student, team-members, and school. 395 Israeli teachers completed PIMRS, SPES, OCB, and demographic questionnaire. Path analysis showed a good fit of the data to the theoretical model. Teacher’s empowerment is a partial mediator for OCB toward student and school; and a full mediator for OCB toward team-members. Teacher’s OCB is crucial for schools’ effectivity, therefore identifying empowerment as a full mediator for OCB toward team-members may assist improving teamwork, especially through IL.
Keywords : instructional leadership, teachers empowerment, teamwork