The Impact of Transformational Leadership and Commitment on Teachers’ Innovative Behaviour

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10.2991/acpch-18.2019.100How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Transformational leadership, commitment, innovative behaviour, schoolteachers.

Abstract

Rapid technological and social changes in society have led to reformation and transformation in educational system. This has demands for innovative behaviour among teachers that play the key role in implementing the educational reformation and transformation schemas at school. The purpose of this study is to describe the level of innovative behaviour among teachers in secondary school in Malaysia and the impact of transformational leadership on teachers’ innovative behaviour before and after the inclusion of teachers’ commitment as mediator. This study employed a survey method, which utilised a set of questionnaire containing items to measure three main variables, namely. transformational leadership of school leaders, teachers’ commitment and innovative behaviour. There were 961 teachers from various secondary schools were randomly selected as respondents which consisted of 704 female teachers and 257 male teachers. The mean values show that the level of innovative behaviour among teachers are moderately high. Further, the hierarchical linear regression analysis identified teachers’ commitment partially mediate the relationship between transformational leadership and teachers’ innovative behaviour. This study provides a glimpse of teachers innovative behaviour improvement resulted from transformational leadership and their commitment towards their career and organization.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Aziah Ismail
AU  - Al Amin Mydin
PY  - 2019/03
DA  - 2019/03
TI  - The Impact of Transformational Leadership and Commitment on Teachers’ Innovative Behaviour
BT  - Proceedings of the 4th ASEAN Conference on Psychology, Counselling, and Humanities (ACPCH 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 426
EP  - 430
SN  - 2352-5398
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