The purpose of this study was to analyze the structural relationships between
the variables of the principal's authentic leadership, school organizational culture,
teacher efficacy and teaching commitment in secondary schools. The research
questions for this purpose were as follows. Firstly, will principal’s authentic
leadership have an effect on school organizational culture? Secondly, will principal’s
authentic leadership and school organizational culture have an effect on teaching
commitment? Thirdly, will principal’s authentic leadership, school organizational
culture, and teaching commitment have an effect on teacher efficacy? The data of
this study were collected through a survey and 870 teachers in secondary schools
in Seoul, Gyeonggi, and Incheon(25 schools) were selected as samples in the
survey. The result of the survey was analyzed using AMOS 18.0 and SPSS 18.0
programs and the following results were verified at the .05 significance level.
Firstly, principal’s authentic leadership proved to have a direct effect on
school organizational culture. Secondly, school organizational culture had a direct
effect on teaching commitment. Though the direct effect of principal’s authentic
leadership on teaching commitment was not significant, principal’s authentic
leadership proved to have an indirect effect on teaching commitment through
school organizational culture. Thirdly, teaching commitment had a direct effect
on teacher efficacy. Though the direct effect of school organizational culture on
teacher efficacy was not significant, school organizational culture proved to have
an indirect effect on teacher efficacy through teaching commitment. Fourthly,
principal’s authentic leadership had a direct effect on teacher efficacy and had
an indirect effect on teacher efficacy through school organizational culture and
teaching commitment. Indirect effect proved to be stronger than direct effect.