Role of Distributed Leadership and Readiness to Change Dimensions in Public and Private Schools Regarding Commitment to Change

Virtually every sector is affected with the breeze of change and globalization, education sector is not an omission. This study aims to analyze the relationship between distributed leadership and teachers’ normative, and continuance commitment to change with meditating role of emotional, intentional, and cognitive readiness to change. Data were collected from 308 public and private schools of Punjab, Pakistan through cluster sampling technique, and subsequently the data were analyzed by using SPSS and AMOS. Findings revealed that there is significant relationship between distributed leadership and normative commitment to change while, insignificant between distributed leadership and continuance commitment to change. However, there is partially significant relationshop between distributed leadership and normative, and continuance commitment to change with mediation of intentional, emotional, and cognitive readiness for change. This study is novel for the reason such relationship has barely studied prior especially in the countries like Pakistan. Study contains limitations, implications, and future guidelines.