Educational Leadership Research

Abstract The present study aimed to structurally analyze the mediating role of teachers' job rotation in explaining their extra-role behaviors based on their emotionally aware leadership. The research employed a descriptive correlational design with a modeling approach. The statistical population of the study included all first and second grade elementary school teachers in District 2 of Kermanshah, and a random cluster method was used for sampling, and 285 of them were selected. The research data collection tool consisted of three standard questionnaires: based on their emotionally aware leadership (2013), job rotation (2006), and extra-role behaviors (2011). The reliability of the tool was determined using the Cronbach's alpha technique, and the reliability values were reported as 0.78 for based on their emotionally aware leadership, 0.81 for job rotation, and 0.73 for extra-role behaviors, respectively. After collection, the research data were analyzed using LISREL10.30 and SSPS25 statistical tools. The results of data analysis indicated that: The relationship between leadership based on emotional awareness and job rotation and extra-role behaviors is positive and significant. The relationship between job rotation and extra-role behaviors was positive and significant. Also, the mediating role of job rotation in the relationship between leadership based on emotional awareness and extra-role behaviors is positive and significant. It seems that leadership based on emotional awareness and job rotation can be among the factors affecting teachers' extra-role behaviors.

Abstract Innovation has been the basis of the development and sustainability of social systems, and achieving innovation requires innovative behavior. Among the different types of leadership and decision-making styles, their relative and different effects in creating innovative behavior, shared leadership and strategic decision-making also play a key role in the occurrence of such behaviors. Therefore, this research was conducted with the aim of investigating the effect of share leadership on innovative behavior with the mediating role of strategic decision making. Descriptive-correlation research method was structural equation modeling. The statistical population of the research included all the primary school teachers of two districts of Kermanshah in the number of 1150 people, using stratified random sampling method, 291 teachers were selected for the study. Standard questionnaires of shared leadership, strategic decision-making and innovative behavior were used to collect research data. Cronbach's alpha tests and confirmatory factor analysis were used to determine the reliability and validity of the questionnaires. Research data after collection were analyzed using Pearson correlation coefficient and structural equation model in Lisrel and SPSS statistical software. The obtained results showed that shared leadership does not have a direct and meaningful effect on innovative behavior(0/48), but shared leadership has a direct and meaningful effect on strategic decision-making(0/73), and strategic decision-making has a direct and meaningful effect on innovative behavior(0/57), and finally, shared leadership has a mediating role in strategic decision-making. It has an indirect, positive and significant effect on innovative behavior.