transformational leadership and organizational citizenship behavior in school: retesting and changing a tested model in industry

one of the high citation researches surrounding model of transformational leadership's impact on organizational citizenship behavior has been conducted by podsakoff, mackenzie, moorman and fetter (1990). using structural equation modeling, current study aims at testing this model and also 4 other models in schools on a sample including 652 teachers and 131 principals. results showed that podsakoff and colleagues model doesn’t have good fit with observed data. results of testing of other models demonstrate that only one model (final model) has best fit with observed data. in this model transformational leadership affected organizational citizenship behavior indirectly through intrinsic job satisfaction and trust in principal. in general, the results indicate that attention to the role of principal's transformational leadership, teacher trust in principal and intrinsic job satisfaction in organizational citizenship behavior of teachers is crucial. implications of the study are discussed in relation to principals, as well as to policy makers and further research.