M.A. Thesis:

The Relationship between Transformational Leadership and Intent to Stay with the Mediating Role of Organizational Virtuousness among the Manager of Elementary Schools of Sabzevar

The present study examine the Relationship between transformational leadership and intent to stay with the mediating role of organizational virtuousness among the Manager of elementary schools of Sabzevar in 2019-2020. The method of research is descriptive and its type is correlation with an emphasis on structural equations. The population consisted of all manager of elementary schools of Sabzevar (211 persons) that 136 peoples were selected using on cochrane formula based.That sample was selected by simple random sampling. The data was collected through transformational leadership Bass & Avolio, intent to stay by Mak, organizational virtuousness by Cameron et al questionnaires. To evaluate validity and reliability of the questionnaires we used Cronbach Alpha coefficient The Kolmogorov-Smirnov, Pearson correlation and structural equation modeling (SEM) was used for data analyzing. The results showed that:1) There is a significant and positive relationship between the transformational leadership and intent to stay. 2) There is a significant and positive relationship between the transformational leadership and organizational virtuousness . 3) There is a significant and positive relationship between the organizational virtuousness and intent to stay. 4) organizational virtuousness playing a mediating role in relationship between transformational leadership and intent to stay. .

Keywords: Keywords: transformational leadership, intent to stay, organizational virtuousness, manager