Examining the impact of manager's transformational leadership on high school teacher's job attitudes by mediating role of organizational identity

Employee's job attitudes play an important role in realizing the organizational goals. One of important factors in increasing organizational commitment and employee's extra-job behaviors is to secure organizational identity. Certain jobs like teaching at high-schools require high level of organizational identity, loyalty, commitment, and performing extra job behaviors that to some extend requires transformational leaders. On this basis, the aim of this research is to examine the impact of transformational leadership on organizational identity and its consequences on job attitudes namely organizational commitment and organizational citizenship behavior among the high school teachers. This descriptive research employed correlation method and questionnaires as means of data collection. The population includes 1100 high school teachers of the West Tehran region drawn by simple random sampling (160 teachers). Spearman correlation method, regression coefficient and structural equations modeling have been used for testing hypotheses. The results indicate that the transformational leadership has a positive and significant effect on organizational identity, and organizational identity causes increasing organizational commitment and organizational citizenship behavior. Also indirect impact of transformational leadership of managers on the high school teacher's attitudes namely organizational commitment and organizational citizenship behavior through organizational identity is stronger than its direct impact.