Development of the School Principals' Servant Leadership Behaviors Scale and Evaluation of Servant Leadership Behaviors According to Teachers' Views

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to develop a scale describing the servant leadership behaviors for school principals and also evaluation of school principals' servant leadership behaviors according to teachers' views as based on this developed scale. For this purpose, a scale outline was firstly formed based on literature and was presented to experts to take their opinions. According to experts' feedback, nine items were taken from the outline. The obtained data was analyzed by superimposing the outline scale with 39-items on 363 teachers who work at primary schools. A construct of five-dimensional (altruist behaviors, empathy, justice, integrity, humility) and 36-items were produced at the end of Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA). In the second stage, 262 teachers' views were obtained from the implementation of the developed scales were analyzed descriptively. According to the obtained results, it was determined that "School Principals Servant Leadership Behaviors Scale" (SPSLBS) was a valid and reliable measurement. Also, there are significant differences according to teachers' views on school principals servant leadership behaviors, based on factors such as teacher gender, duration of time working with current principals, school principals membership in professional associations, and whether or not the teacher and principal are in the same association.