MEDIATING EFFECT OF JOB SATISFACTIONON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ADMINISTRATORS' TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP, ORGANIZATIONAL JUSTICE AND TEACHERS’ ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT IN PRIVATE UNIVERSITIES OF KUNMING, YUNNAN PROVINCE

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The objectives of this research were (1) to determine the components and indicators of administrators' transformational leadership, organizational justice, teachers’ job satisfaction, and organizational commitment in private universities of Kunming under Yunnan Province. (2) to propose the structural equation model for the mediating effect of teachers’ job satisfaction on the relationship between administrators' transformational leadership, organizational justice, and organizational commitment in private universities of Kunming under Yunnan Province.

          The research was a quantitative research methodology. The population were teachers from private universities in Kunming, Yunnan Province, The People's Republic of China total of 5533 people. The sample size was obtained by multistage random sampling method, totaling 330. Instrument used for data collection was a five-point rating scale questionnaire. Statistics used for data analysis were Confirmatory Factor Analysis and Structural Equation Model.

Research results were revealed  that: a mediating effects relationship between administrators' transformational leadership and organizational justice with teachers’ organizational commitment model fit with the empirical data at statistically significant p < 0.01, the value of the full model: Chi-square =120.58, df = 98, GFI =0.96, AGFI=0.94, TLI =0.99, CFI = 0.99, and SRMR= 0.03; (2) administrators’ transformational leadership and teachers’ job satisfaction both have a direct and significant impact on organizational commitment, but organizational justice has not impact on organizational commitment; and (3) teachers’ job satisfaction, as a mediating variable, played a partial mediating role in the relationship between transformational leadership and organizational commitment, played a complete mediating role in the relationship between organizational justice and organizational commitment.