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Teachers are important social investment in every educational system and their empowerment guarantees the blossoming of that country’s future generation. This phenomenon would be possible through school principals leadership function.
The purpose of present research was to investigate the relationship between principals leadership functions and the empowerment of primary school teachers. Primary school Female Teachers in Tehran in 1391-92 academic year were considered as statistical population from whom 366 teachers were chosen as the research sample by Random Cluster Sampling Method. In order to determine the leadership style of principals, The Teachers Empowerment Questionnaire and Principals Leadership Functions Questionnaire were used. Data was analyzed through descriptive and canonical correlation methods. The results showed that there was a correlation between leadership style and empowerment (0.53) which indicates that %28 of teachers’ empowerment variance could be justified by leadership style of principals. So, based on these findings, we could conclude that principal leadership functions could increase teachers’ empowerment.
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