The Effect of Distributed Leadership Style on Organizational Commitment and Job Satisfaction of Karaj Primary School Teachers

While analyzing theconcept ofdistributedleadership, this study purposes toexaminethe effect of distributed leadership styleonjob satisfactionandorganizational commitment withthe mediating roleofteachers’ academic optimismvariable. The method of this study is correlational-descriptive. Statistical population of this study includes all the teachers at primary schools of Karaj. By using multi-stage sampling of Jercey and Morgan, 160 teachers were selected as sample and were evaluated. Forgathering dataa standardizedquestionnaire was used, which consisted offourparts including measurement of leadershipbehavior, organizational commitment, organization-alsatisfaction, andacademic-optimism. 66 questions consisted of 36questions formeasuring theacademicoptimism, 20 questions to measureleadership behavior, 6 questions to measure organizational commitment 6 questions to measure job satisfaction. The Results showed that the distributed leadership is the predictive of optimism, satisfaction and organizational commitment. But itsinfluence degreeonorganizational commitment was morethanothervariables. Also, theimpact ofdistributedlea-dershiponjob satisfactionwasindirect. Demographi-cvariables, explained the organizational commitment ratherthanjob satisfaction and thefindingsshowed thatnone of thedemographic variablespre dictedacademi coptimism. Finally, academic optimismsignificantly predicted organizationalcommitmentandjob satisfaction.