Transformational Leadership and Its’ Impact on Teacher’s Creative Behaviour in Chinese Universities

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Xiaolei Zou
Matthew R. Merritt

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Since 1949, the Chinese government has always attached great attendance to the development of domestic education and the education level of Chinese people. After 50 years of effort, it has made a great change and development in Chinese education. In the meantime, the facing of serious cash shortages motivates many Chinese universities to change to achieve a higher education level, and it also increases the requirement of a transformational leadership style leader. This researcher aims to use a survey way to find the relationship between transformational leadership and the creative behavior of teachers, and also found the mediating role of person-organization fit and person-supervisor fit. A quantitative research approach was adopted to collect and analyze the data. Questionnaires were used to target the research objects who hide in the wide populations. What’s more, the researcher also found that different demographic factors such as gender and age have a significant effect on the transformational leadership style of leaders toward subordinate teachers’ perception, and there is no significant difference between different education level leaders’ transformational leadership style toward their subordinate teacher’s perception.

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Zou, X., & Merritt, M. R. . (2022). Transformational Leadership and Its’ Impact on Teacher’s Creative Behaviour in Chinese Universities. International Journal of Sociologies and Anthropologies Science Reviews, 2(6), 45–56. https://doi.org/10.14456/jsasr.2022.42
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