Transformational Leadership Styles and Innovative Behavior of Teachers: Towards A Proposed Intervention Program
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https://doi.org/10.54097/ijeh.v11i3.14924Keywords:
Transformational leadership styles, Innovative behavior, Intervention program.Abstract
The study investigated the current status of transformational leadership styles and university teachers’ innovation behaviors. Additionally, the researcher explored the relationship between transformational leadership styles and innovation behaviors. The study utilized a descriptive correlational research design. A sample size of 363 teachers was computed from a total population of 3956 faculty members from Hunan University and Hunan University of Science and Technology as the respondents for this study, and then stratified sampling was employed to distribute proportionally the respondents from the two schools. The findings of the study are as follows: universities visited have a relatively high proportion of female teachers in their faculty. The teacher group is dominated by young teachers, and the universities visited have a certain balance in the educational level of teachers with various kinds of educational attainment. The teacher group is dominated by teachers with shorter teaching experience, while there are relatively few teachers with longer teaching experience. Leaders are more fair in each leadership style, with no obvious outstanding strengths or weaknesses. The assessment of transformational leadership styles is not influenced by teacher profiles and is not an important factor in the assessment of transformational leadership. Teachers did not show significantly outstanding levels of creativity, innovative practices, and innovative diversity. 5. Teachers' creative behavior is not affected by teachers' sex, age, education, or teaching experience. There is a significant positive correlation between transformational leadership and innovative behavior. Teachers' innovative behavior is influenced by transformational leadership. Adopting a transformational leadership style has a positive impact on promoting teachers' innovative behavior.
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