The role of transformational leadership and successful intelligence in creative performance with the mediation of knowledge management and teachers' self-efficacy

The main purpose of the research was to investigate the role of transformational leadership and successful intelligence in creative performance with the mediation of knowledge management and teachers' self-efficacy.

The research method was quantitative, descriptive and correlational. The research population of teachers in Chahar district of Shiraz was 1890 people, from which a sample of 318 people was selected by simple random sampling method based on Cochran's formula. To collect research data from the Transformational Leadership Questionnaire of Bass and Alio (1997), Grigorenko and Sternberg (2002) Successful Intelligence Questionnaire, Sharon and Lawson (2003), Riggs & Knight (1994) self-efficacy, and The creative performance of Oldham and Cummings (1996) was used. Data analysis was performed using descriptive (mean and standard deviation) and inferential techniques (confirmatory factor analysis and confirmatory path analysis) using Spss and Lisrel software.

The results of the analysis showed: the variables of transformational leadership, successful intelligence, knowledge management and self-efficacy had a direct, positive and significant effect at the 0.05 level on teachers' creative performance; Transformational leadership and successful intelligence with the mediation of knowledge management and self-efficacy had an indirect, positive and significant effect on teachers' creative performance; Also, self-efficacy with the mediation of knowledge management had an indirect, positive and significant effect at the level of 0.05 on teachers' creative performance.

Finally, based on the results of this research, it can be said that school principals' use of transformational leadership style and successful intelligence leads to the creative performance of teachers through knowledge management and self-efficacy.