The present study explores the effect of school principals' distributed leadership practices on teacher organizational commitment employing a mediating effect model. The model suggests that there is a mediating role between teachers' work motivation and their trust in the principal in the relationship between teachers' organizational commitment and the distributed style of principals' leadership at schools. This study adopted a quantitative research strategy and for this purpose, data was collected through convenience sampling method from 599 teachers working in private and government secondary schools in Karachi. Results of the study confirm that teacher organizational commitment is significantly affected by the principal’s distributed leadership practices and this relationship is mediated by the teachers’ trust in the school principal and teacher work motivation. This study adds to the educational leadership literature by supporting a convincing link in the relationship between teachers' organizational commitment and principals' distributed leadership practices with the mediating role of trust in principals and work motivation. Management should invest in leadership (distributed) development to train school principals to increase teachers’ motivation, trust and commitment.
Imran et al. (Tue,) studied this question.