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Transformational Leadership And Junior High School Teachers' Organization Is Committed To Relationship Research

Posted on:2008-01-19Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:K Y CaoFull Text:PDF
GTID:2207360215992704Subject:Education Economics and Management
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The transformational leadership (TL) refers to the school leader (principal) to evoke teachers' high level demand, establish the atmosphere which teachers trust each other, urge teachers sacrifice their benefit for organization and reach the result that surpass the expectation by making teachers realize the importance to take charge of their responsibility. Teachers' organizational commitment (TOC) is an attitude that the teacher are identified with the goal and value of the school they teach, have strong sense of identity and loyalty to the organization, want to dedicate to the school, take participate in the activities actively and hope to continue to serve the school.The article studies and discusses the relation of TL and TOC by using statistical methods which include questionnaire, description analysis, T test, variance analysis, Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA), Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA), correlation analysis and regression analysis, and so on.Firstly, according to the related literature at home and abroad, the article summarize and comment on related researches of TL and TOC, put forward connotation of TL and TOC. Secondly, the article selects 250 teachers from the junior middle school of Zengcheng and Conghua districts in Guangzhou by adopting random sampling method. EFA of effective data from a sample of 187 showed that the transformational leadership questionnaire (TLQ) and teacher organizational commitment questionnaire (TOCQ) was a four-dimension construct respectively, which one included Morale Modeling, Visionary, Charisma and Individualized Consideration, the other include Affective Commitment, Ideal Commitment, Normative Commitment and Involvement Commitment. International consistency analyses showed that TLQ and TOCQ had suitable reliability. Then, the article test 500 teachers formally who from the junior middle school of Tianhe, Huangpu, Fanyu, Nansha, Luogang, Haizhu, Baiyun, Yuexiu and Liwan districts in Guangzhou by adopting stratified sampling method and verifies the validity and reliability of the effective data sample of 402 again by using CFA and internal consistency reliability. Thirdly, according to one-factor variance analysis, correlation analysis and regression analysis, the article shows that (1) there are notable differences in the background variables of TL such as different sex; there are notable differences in the background variables of TOC such as different teaching years, professional title, education qualification, the grade of school and the scale of school; (2) there are notable correlation between TL and TCO; (3) the four dimensions of TL can predict TOC effectively and the joint explained variation is 33.5%.Finally, according to the conclusion that from empirical data, the article gives some suggestions which will enhance TOC from the perspective of principal: the principal should implement visionary leadership; implement democratic management, cultivate the sense of ownership of the teacher and encourage the teacher to participate in administration; promote the professional growth of the teacher and enhance the identity of school of the teacher and effort wish; construct organizational culture of the school and realize the values unification that between the school and the teacher.
Keywords/Search Tags:transformational leadership, teachers' organizational commitment, junior middle school
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