How School Administrators Lead and How Their Teachers Behave: An Investigation on Leadership Styles and Organizational Citizenship Behaviors

Abstract

This study was undertaken to ascertain the leadership styles of school administrators and the organizational citizenship behaviors of the Kindergarten and Grades I-VI teachers in the elementary schools of DepEd-Dumingag II District, Dumingag, Zamboanga del Sur for School Year 2018-2019. It utilized the descriptive correlational research design using questionnaire-checklist as data gathering instrument and the descriptive and inferential statistics as data analysis tools. The results of the study revealed that transformational leadership was the most dominant leadership style among the school administrators as compared to laissez-faire and transactional leadership. Teachers demonstrated exceedingly high organizational citizenship behaviors in their respective school organizations. A significant relationship existed between the school administrators’ leadership styles and the teachers’ sportsmanship but no association was found with altruism, civic virtue, conscientiousness, and courtesy. Moreover, an insignificant difference existed between the organizational citizenship behavior levels of the teachers who were assigned in upland and lowland barangay elementary schools.