Abstract:

Serviced leadership is a leadership style that prioritizes the needs and expectations of the employers, which makes them a lifetime philosophy of continuous service and support in their development. The aim of this research is to determine the relationship between the serviced leadership behaviors of high school managers and the motivation levels of teachers. Relational scan model was used in the research. The universe of research consists of a total of 585 branch teachers working in 39 high schools in Siirt province in the 2018-2019 academic year. The sample of the study consists of a total of 391 teachers in 28 secondary schools, which were selected by the simple non-selective sample method. The study used the "Service Leadership Behavior Scale" and the "Teacher Motivation Scale" as a data collection tool. In the analysis of the data, SPSS 21 package program was used. The study used imaging statistics, independent sampling t-test, one-way variance analysis and regression analysis techniques. The research finds that teachers’ perceptions of serviced leadership behavior by high school managers generally are "mediate level". According to the teachers’ perceptions, it has been revealed that school managers show their serviced leadership behaviors in the sub-dimensions of self-righteous behaviors, empathy, fair attitudes and behaviors, honesty and humility "in the middle" level. In general, high school managers have established a meaningful relationship between serviced leadership behaviors and the internal and external motivation levels of teachers in a positive direction and a medium level.The result of the regression analysis, serviced leadership has shown that the internal motivation and the inferior dimension of honesty, especially the personal behaviors and the inferior dimension of empathy, and the external motivation in a positive direction. Recommendations were made based on the results of the research.