LEADERSHIP DISTRIBUTION CONSEQUENCES IN SCHOOL:A PARTICULAR LOOK AT ON ORGANIZATIONAL CITIZENSHIP BEHAVIOR OF TEACHERS

Current approach to leadership in school highlights multiple leaders and power distribution in school instead of just one source of power and leadership. This approach is labeled as "distributed leadership". Educational researchers are now emphasizing on its important consequences not only for principals and school but also for the teachers. "Organizational citizenship behavior" as a one of the most important teacher-related consequences, is neglected in their empirical attempts. Current descriptive study tries to fill this gap through investigating the role of distributed leadership in teachers, principals organizational citizenship behavior of teachers. A representative sample including 360 teachers and 52 principals of Kraj primary schools have participated in the study and have completed distributed leadership and organizational citizenship behavior questionnaires. The reliability and construct validity were calculated. Research questions were responded using Pearson correlation coefficient and standard multiple regression. Results showed that there is a significant positive correlation between distributed leadership and organizational citizenship behavior dimensions. Also the results of regression analysis showed that dimensions of distributed leadership have significant explanation for all of organizational citizenship behavior dimensions. Results of this study draw attention to the importance of distributed leadership and organizational citizenship behavior as an important teacher-related consequence. Some implications were proposed in the final section of the article for policy makers, principals, teachers and researchers.