Transformational Leadership, Job Satisfaction, and Organizational Innovation

The purpose of this research is to identify relationship between transformational leadership with job satisfaction, and organizational innovation in secondary schools of the Hamadan province. The research method is descriptive- correlation. Statistical population included all teachers comprised of 8640 people, and the sample size of 368 subjects was determined based on the Cochran formula. The sampling method used is proportional stratified random sampling. Data collected were used from three questionnaires with this items: transformational leadership questionnaire of Bass and Avolio, job satisfaction questionnaire of Brayfield & Rothe, and organizational innovation questionnaire of Ettlie and O'Keefe. For appointment of questionnaires validity, of the method content-related validity, and to assess scale the reliability of the questionnaires, Cronbach's Alpha coefficient was used. It was estimated .94, .84 and .78 respectively. Results situation of transformational leadership, job satisfaction, and organizational innovation was above the average level. Pearson correlation coefficient revealed that there is a significant positive relationship between transformational leadership with job satisfaction, and organizational innovation. The finding of multiple regression analysis indicated that the components of transformational leadership, Factor of individual consideration is most effective in predicting job satisfaction, and the factors of individual consideration and idealized influence have the highest impact prediction of organizational innovation.

Idealized influence, Individual consideration, Job Satisfaction, Organizational innovation, Transformational leadership.