Explaining the Mediating Role of Teacher Empowerment in the Relationship between Level Five Leadership and the Desire to Perform Extra-Role Behaviors

Educational organizations, which are responsible for the serious task of formal education, need teachers who can show extra-role behavior to fulfill their role in society. This study was conducted to explain the relationship between level-five leadership and extra-role behaviors through the mediation of teacher empowerment. The present study is applied research in terms of purpose and descriptive research in terms of data collection in which, correlation type is used with structural equation modeling. The statistical population of the study consists of all primary school teachers of Mahabad city (965 people) in the period 2023-2024, of which 265 people were selected to participate in the research using a simple random sampling method. To collect the required information, level-five leadership questionnaires (Shariat Nejad et al., 2018), empowerment of school staff (Rinehart and Short,1995), and extra-role behaviors (Oregon and Kanoski,1983) were used. The data was analyzed using the structural equation method based on the three-step approach of partial least squares. The results showed that level five leadership style had a positive and significant effect on extra-role behaviors and teacher empowerment. Also, teacher empowerment had a direct and significant effect on teachers' extra-role behaviors and teacher empowerment had a mediating role regarding the effect of level five leadership style on teachers' extra-role behaviors. According to the results, it can be said that to promote extra-role behaviors among teachers, paying attention to level five leadership style and empowering teachers seems necessary.