Abstract:

This research examined the relationship betweeen teacher motivation and their perceptions of spiritual leadership and to what extent spiritual leadership perceptions predicted teachers’ motivation. Descriptive scanning model was used in this study. The sample of the study consisted of the 252 teachers who worked in primary and secondary schools of Şehitkâmil Province, Gaziantep in 2010-2011 academic year. The data in the study was obtained by “Spiritual Leadership” questionnaire composed by Fry (2007) and translated into Turkish by Kurtar (2009)“, and Organizational Motivation” questionnaire composed by Kocabaş and Karaköse (2006). Correlation analysis technique was applied to identify the relationship between the variables. Regression analysis technique was applied to determine the effect of the independent variables on the dependent variable. According to the study results the relationship between teachers’ motivation and their spiritual leadership perceptions is meaningful, positive and at a high level. Also the results revealed that the factors in the spiritual leadership questionnaire predict 52% of teacher motivation. According to the regression analysis results “vision”, “altruism” and “spiritual living” are important predictive variables.

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