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The aim of this research is to systematically analyze the studies conducted on the relationship between school managers’ leadership behaviors and teachers’ organizational commitment. For this purpose in the example of Turkey between 2000-2017 years WOS, ERIC, EBSCO, SCOPUS, ULAKBIM directories and databases scaned and selected according to specific criteria 23 articles work was taken to be evaluated. The results of the study have found that the teachers’ commitment to the schools increased as the school managers showed higher levels of leadership behavior. Leadership behaviors that stand out in the studies have been identified as having a common goal and vision in school, creating a culture of cooperation, enhancing communication and interaction, showing interest and appreciation to individuals, supporting and developing behaviors, being fair, creating a culture of work based on respect and confidence, sharing responsibility, managing andining change in school. On the other hand, studies have found that the transformative leadership, serviced leadership and ethical leadership behaviors are positively linked to school managers’ organizational commitments. However, this leadership behavior has been shown to be important contributors to organizational commitment.

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The aim of this study is to conduct a systematic review of studies on the relationship between school principals' leadership behaviours and teachers' organisational commitment. For this purpose, 23 research articles indexed in WOS, ERIC, EBSCO, SCOPUS and ULAKBİM databases between 2000-2017 in the Turkish context and selected through certain criteria were collected for analysis. According to the results of the studies examined, as school principals performed a higher level of leadership behaviours, teachers' level of commitment to their schools increased. The leadership behaviours that were prominent in these studies were having a common objective and vision in school, forming a culture of cooperation, enhancing communication and interaction, showing interest and appreciation of individuals, supportive and constructive behaviours, being fair, creating a working culture based on respect and trust, sharing responsibilities, and managing and maintaining change in school. Moreover, in the studies, school principals' organisational commitment was reported to be positively related to transformational leadership, servant leadership and ethical leadership behaviours. These leadership behaviours were also found to be important predictors of organisational commitment. 

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