27Jan 2020

AUTHENTIC LEADERSHIP AND TEACHER MORALE: IMPACT ON ORGANIZATIONAL CITIZENSHIP BEHAVIOR IN HIGHER EDUCATION

  • The Graduate School, University of Santo Tomas, Manila, Philippines
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The success of schools relies predominantly on the leadership styles of school leaders and teachers behaviors toward work. Despite the evidence showing that authentic leadership can effectively operate in an increasingly complicated environment, limited studies have focused on its impact on educational organizations. This quantitative study was aimed at examining the impactof authentic leadership and teacher morale on organizational citizenship behavior in the context of higher education using Multiple Regression Analysis. Survey data were collected from 150 college teacher-respondents from different universities in the Philippines. Results yielded that the deans authentic leadership positively promotes teacher morale and organizational citizenship behavior in higher education. Moreover, teacher morale positively promotes organizational citizenship behavior in higher education. This study has shown that authentic leadership is important in driving teacher morale and organizational citizenship behavior of teachers in higher education. The results provide new significant information of the importance of authentic leadership on educational organization. This work would allow for more scholarly attention to authentic leadership in the context of educational organization and may direct future research on its effect on other organizational outcomes and behavioral performance.


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[Ma. Celia T. Roncesvalles and Amelita A. Gaerlan (2020); AUTHENTIC LEADERSHIP AND TEACHER MORALE: IMPACT ON ORGANIZATIONAL CITIZENSHIP BEHAVIOR IN HIGHER EDUCATION Int. J. of Adv. Res. 8 (Jan). 304-314] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com


Ma. Celia T. Roncesvalles
1. The Graduate School, University of Santo Tomas, Manila, Philippines

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Article DOI: 10.21474/IJAR01/10296      
DOI URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.21474/IJAR01/10296