TY - JOUR AB - Purpose The benefits of teacher leadership have attracted the attention of policymakers, practitioners and researchers. It is increasingly advocated as one of the most crucial and indispensable components of the school, college and university administration. The present study tends to investigate the role of gratitude in developing teacher leadership through examining sufficiency and necessity of thankfulness for educational leadership.Design/methodology/approach The study explores sufficiency and necessity of gratitude for seven dimensions of educational leadership with the help of correlation, regression and necessary condition analysis.Findings The paper concludes that gratitude is both sufficient and necessary condition for overall teacher leadership and its seven dimensions.Originality/value The paper is based on original data. VL - 34 IS - 5 SN - 0951-354X DO - 10.1108/IJEM-07-2019-0253 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/IJEM-07-2019-0253 AU - Garg Naval PY - 2020 Y1 - 2020/01/01 TI - Exploring role of gratitude in developing teacher leadership in Indian universities T2 - International Journal of Educational Management PB - Emerald Publishing Limited SP - 881 EP - 901 Y2 - 2024/04/26 ER -