Abstract
This study explores relationships between principals' leadership, teachers' organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) and innovative management of schools. The respondents of the questionnaire survey comprised 725 elementary teachers in Taipei City and Nanjing City. The mediation effect of teachers' OCB was analyzed using Sobel test. The results show that principals' leadership significantly and directly influences innovative management of schools. However, principals' leadership can enhance innovative management of schools through mediating effect of teachers' OCB. The differences of direct, indirect and total effects in Taipei City and Nanjing City are further discussed. In light of these findings, educational institutions should actively reinforce principal's leadership and principal should make teachers feel that they are the part of the organization and in their working more efficiently.