The Impact of Authentic Leadership on Teachers’ Job Satisfaction and Organizational Citizenship Behavior in Primary and Secondary Education Teachers

Abstract

Theoretical and empirical studies of the last decadesoutline the relationship between authentic leadership and employees' attitudes and performance, with research data supporting its positive impact on their job satisfaction and organizational citizenship behavior.The aim of the present study is to reveal the perceptions of primary and secondary education teachers regarding authentic leadership behaviors in school principals' practices, to explore the relationship between teachers’ job satisfaction and their organizational citizenship behavior and to estimate the potential impact of authentic leadership on these variables. Primary data were collected from 138 teachersthrough questionnaires, while methods of descriptive and inductive statistics were used for data processing and analysis. The results indicate a significant level of incorporation of authentic leadership characteristics into school principals' practices and medium to high levels of job satisfaction and organizational citizenship behavior among teachers. Principals’ authentic leadership was found to be positively related with teachers’ organizational citizenship behavior. On the contrary, no statistically significant relationship was found between authentic leadership and teachers’ job satisfaction, which, however, was found to be positively related with their organizational citizenship behavior.