Investigate the role of servant leadership and team leadership In team performance mediated by team cohesion and team learning In the teams of secondary school teachers in Kurdistan province

Document Type : Quantitative Research Paper

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1 Ph.D. Student in Educational Management, Department of Educational Sciences, Faculty of Humanities, Bu Ali Sina University, Hamadan, Iran.

2 Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, Faculty of Humanities, Bu Ali Sina University, Hamadan, Iran.

Abstract

The aim of this study was to investigate the role of servant leadership and team leadership in team performance mediated by team cohesion and team learning in teacher teams. The study population was all secondary school teachers in Kurdistan province, which was selected by random sampling method of relative classes and based on Cochran's formula, a sample of 346 teachers. The research method was quantitative and correlation-oriented structural equation modeling approach. To collect data from Liden et al.'s (2015) Servant Leadership Questionnaire; Leadership of a research team based on the model of Morgeson, DeRue & Karam (2010); Podsakoff & MacKenzie Team Cohesion (1994); The team learning of Bresó, Gracia, Latorre & Peiró (2008) and the team performance of Puente[1]Palacios, Martins & Palumbo (2016) were used. The reliability of the questionnaires was assessed by Cronbach's alpha technique, and the validity of the questionnaires was evaluated by first and second order heuristic and confirmatory factor analysis. To analyze the data and test the research hypotheses, correlation matrix analysis and structural equation modeling with SPSS.v25 and LISREL.v10 software were used. The results showed that: 1) Servant leadership had a direct, positive and significant effect on team performance, team learning and team cohesion and through team cohesion and team learning on team performance in teacher teams had an indirect positive and significant effect; 2) Team leadership had a direct, positive and significant effect on team performance, team learning and team cohesion and through team cohesion and team learning had a positive and significant indirect effect on team performance in teacher teams.

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