Correlation analysis of positive leadership and smart leadership with school entrepreneurship: Testing the mediating role of teachers' self-efficacy

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the relationship between positive-oriented leadership and smart leadership with school entrepreneurship with the mediating role of self-efficacy of teachers in Kermanshah city. The research method is descriptive-correlational. The statistical population included all teachers with 3053 who were selected as using random stratified sampling method and based on Karajsi and Morgan table. Four standard questionnaires Included: Cameron's Positive Leadership Questionnaire (2007); Smart Leadership by Sidmanlaka (2002); Scheffen, Moran & Wolfeff, (2001) and Margaret Hill's Organizational Entrepreneurship (2003) were used to collect research data. The validity of the questionnaires was calculated using content and formal validity, and its reliability was calculated through Cronbach's alpha coefficient and was estimated to be 0.91, 0.93, 0.90 and 0.91, respectively. To analyze of data descriptive techniques and inferential statistics (confirmatory factor analysis and confirmation path analysis) were used.The results showed that: Positive leadership, smart leadership, and teacher self-efficacy have a significant impact on school entrepreneurship. Also, positive leadership and intelligent leadership have a significant effect on teachers' self-efficacy; Positive leadership through teachers' self-efficacy has a significant effect on school entrepreneurship.