Empowerment as a Mediator between Instructional Leadership and Teachers’ Organizational Citizenship Behavior

The study explores the mediating effect of teacher’s empowerment on the relationship between instructional leadership (IL) to teacher’s organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) toward student, team-members, and school. 395 Israeli teachers completed PIMRS, SPES, OCB, and demographic questionnaire. Path analysis showed a good fit of the data to the theoretical model. Teacher’s empowerment is a partial mediator for OCB toward student and school; and a full mediator for OCB toward team-members. Teacher’s OCB is crucial for schools’ effectivity, therefore identifying empowerment as a full mediator for OCB toward team-members may assist improving teamwork, especially through IL.