Cansoy, RamazanPolatcan, Mahmut2024-09-292024-09-292019https://doi.org/10.14686/buefad.441189https://search.trdizin.gov.tr/tr/yayin/detay/469702https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14619/10242The aim of this study is to conduct a systematic review of studies on the relationship between school principals' leadership behaviors and teachers' organizational commitment. For this purpose, 23 research articles indexed in WOS, ERIC, EBSCO, SCOPUS and ULAKBİM databases between 2000-2017 in the Turkish context and selected through certain criteria were collected for analysis. According to the results of the studies examined, as the leadership behaviours that were prominent in these studies were having a common objective and vision in school, forming a culture of cooperation, enhancing communication and interaction, showing interest and appreciation of individuals, supportive and constructive behaviours, being fair, creating a working culture based on respect and trust, sharing responsibilities, and managing and maintaining change in school. Moreover, in the studies, school principals' organizational commitment was reported to be positively related to transformational leadership, servant leadership, and ethical leadership behaviors. These leadership behaviors were also found to be important predictors of organizational commitment.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessArticle10.14686/buefad.44118931114697028