The role of synergistic leadership of school principals in organizational entrepreneurship by mediating the productive behaviors of technical and vocational teachers (case study: schools of Tehran province)

Introduction: Organizational entrepreneurship can maximize productivity to achieve organizational goals in a way that individuals seem to strive to achieve their individual goals. Therefore, this research was conducted with the aim of investigating the role of synergistic leadership of school principals in organizational entrepreneurship by mediating the productive behaviors of technical and vocational teachers.
Method: The quantitative research method is correlation studies and covariance-based structural equation modeling approach. The research population was all the teachers of technical and vocational schools in Tehran province, and a sample of 364 teachers was selected from this population using proportional stratified random sampling based on Cochran's formula. In order to collect data from the researcher's questionnaire made of the synergistic leadership; a researcher-made questionnaire of teachers' productive behaviors; and the organizational entrepreneurship questionnaire of Hughes & Morgan (2007) was used. Cronbach's alpha techniques and confirmatory factor analysis were used to determine the reliability and validity of the organizational entrepreneurship questionnaire, and the reliability and validity of the researcher-made questionnaire of synergistic leadership and the researcher-made questionnaire of productive behaviors were investigated with Cronbach's alpha techniques, content validity ratio, exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis, In order to analyze the data, structural equation modeling was used by Lisrel software.
Results: The results showed that synergistic leadership of managers has a positive and significant direct effect on organizational entrepreneurship at the level of 0.05. Synergistic leadership of school principals has a positive and significant direct effect on teachers' productive behaviors at the 0.05 level. Teachers' productive behaviors have a positive and significant direct effect on organizational entrepreneurship at the 0.05 level. The synergistic leadership of school principals through the productive behaviors of teachers has a positive and significant indirect effect on organizational entrepreneurship at the level of 0.05. Also, the synergistic leadership of school principals and the productive behaviors of technical and vocational teachers are able to explain 0.19 of the variance of organizational entrepreneurship.
Discussion and conclusion: By using a synergistic leadership style, school principals will promote and promote entrepreneurship and facilitate the emergence of productive behaviors by teachers.