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Relationships Among Servant Leadership, Organizational Citizenship Behavior, and School Climate in Alabama High Schools

Author : David Lee Dixon

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Page : 113 pages

File Size : 15,6 MB

Release : 2013

Category : Electronic dissertations

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This study examined the relationship between servant leadership of the principal with Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB) and school climate. Servant leadership, a leadership behavior that emphasizes personal growth of followers, has a useful research history in business but limited exposure in public schools. Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB) is an organizational construct that describes non-contractual behaviors of workers that contribute to the success of the organization. The climate of a school is defined as the working environment as perceived by the teachers within the school. The people-centered behaviors of a servant leader principal promote positive social reciprocal interactions between the members within the organization. These relationships in turn foster organizational citizenship behaviors within the school and provide an open/healthy school environment. This study utilized data gathered from 708 participants within a random sample of forty-one public high schools in Alabama. Three reliable instruments were used in this study: Servant Leadership Survey (SLS), Organizational Climate Index (OCI), Organizational Citizenship Behavior Scale (OCB Scale). The first hypothesis of the study tested the relationship of SL with OCB and School Climate. The findings for this study supported a previous study that servant leadership behaviors of the principal are significantly related to the school climate. As servant leadership behaviors increase the climate of the school improves. Findings also reveal that servant leadership behaviors are significantly related to the OCB within the school. As servant leadership behaviors increase the level of OCB within the school rises. The second hypothesis of the study tested the predictability of servant leadership and OCB on the perceived school climate. Regression analysis results identified OCB as the greater predictor of school climate. Further examination of the servant leadership and OCB with each climate dimension provided a more comprehensive examination of the relationships. OCB was found to be a greater predictor of collegial leadership and professional teacher behavior. Surprisingly, results of the analysis revealed socioeconomic status (SES) was the greater predictor of the academic press and environmental press within the school climate.





Leadership and School Quality

Author : Michael DiPaola

Publisher : IAP

Page : 255 pages

File Size : 11,49 MB

Release : 2015-03-01

Category : Education

ISBN : 1681230402

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Leadership and School Quality is the twelfth in a series on research and theory dedicated to advancing our understanding of schools through empirical study and theoretical analysis. Hence, the chapters include analyses that investigate relationships between school organizations and leadership behaviors that have an impact on teacher and school effectiveness.



The Impact of Servant Leadership on School Climate

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Page : 192 pages

File Size : 28,95 MB

Release : 2015

Category : Educational leadership

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"The topic of this research was the impact that servant leadership has on school climate. The participants were educators employed in the International Schools Group School District housed in Saudi Arabia. This was a quantitative study employing a cluster sampling using the Servant Leadership Scale (SLS) and the R-SLEQ (Revised School Level Environment Questionnaire) delivered to participants using Qualtrics Survey Software. The research questions were: Does servant leadership impact school climate in the International Schools Group school district in Saudi Arabia? What is the relationship of the leaders' perception of servant leadership and school climate? What is the relationship of the teachers' perception of servant leadership and school climate? What are the relationships between the demographic variables and school climate? What is the relationship between servant leaders and school climate after accounting for those demographic variables that are significantly related to school climate? The data was analyzed using Pearson's Correlation Coefficient (r), Two Sample Independent t-test, Oneway ANOVA and Multiple Linear Regression. The results garnered from this study show that there is a positive significant relationship between teachers' perceptions of servant leadership and school climate. The results also showed a positive significance between local hire and sponsored hire educators and school climate. When adding whether the participant was local hire or sponsored hire, servant leadership is a statistically significant predictor of school climate."--Leaf 2.



A Correlational Analysis of Servant Leadership and Secondary School Climate

Author : Bryan R. Wolfe

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Page : 139 pages

File Size : 25,67 MB

Release : 2013

Category : Education, Secondary

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This quantitative, correlational study addressed teacher and administrator perceptions of school climate and their perceptions of servant leadership within secondary church-run protestant schools in Hawaii. Continuing the work of Greenleaf, the researcher sought to further the study of servant leadership and organizational climate. Data were collected utilizing Laub's Organizational Leadership Assessment (OLA) to measure the perception of servant leadership within an organization, while the Organizational Climate Description Questionnaire- Revised (OCDQ-RS) measured the perception of school climate. Both assessments were administered to faculty and administrators, and the results from both validated instruments were then evaluated utilizing Partial Least Square (PLS) to offer understanding of the potential correlation between servant leadership and school climate. The sample included faculty and administrators, specifically concentrating on protestant church-run schools. Both assessments were administered in church-run protestant schools on Oahu. Administrators and teachers at four schools produced a total of 50 participants for this specific research. The data supported the hypothesis suggesting a significant positive correlation of servant leadership and school climate.



The Relationship Between Leadership Behaviors, Trust in Leadership and Teacher Organizational Citizenship Behaviors

Author : Tonia Y. Havard-Dew

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Page : 214 pages

File Size : 30,64 MB

Release : 2021

Category : Educational leadership

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As greater accountability is placed on school districts, in response to the increased demands of federal and state policies and mandates, teacher workloads and responsibilities have been increased to meet those demands. School districts rely on teachers’ commitment to students’ educational pursuits and their willingness to demonstrate behaviors that exceed their formal role expectations to facilitate student success. These behaviors, known as organizational citizenship behaviors (OCB), cannot be required, but play a critical role in ensuring a district’s success. The purpose of this quantitative study was to examine the relationship between teachers’ trust in their administrator and teachers’ OCB through the analysis of the data collected from 121 elementary, middle, and high school teachers using The Faculty Trust Scale and the Organizational Citizenship Behavior Scale for Schools. Three separate inferential statistical procedures were performed to analyze the relationship between teachers’ trust and OCB and predictor variables: years of service, gender, and grade level taught.





Leadership and Organizational Outcomes

Author : Engin Karadağ

Publisher : Springer

Page : 275 pages

File Size : 47,54 MB

Release : 2015-03-12

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 3319149083

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This book focuses on the effect of leadership on organizational outcomes and summarizes the current research findings in the field. It addresses the need for inclusive and interpretive studies in the field in order to interpret leadership literature and suggest new pathways for further studies. Appropriately, a meta-analysis approach is used by the contributors to show the big picture to the researchers by analyzing and combining the findings from different independent studies. In particular, the editors compile various studies examining the relationship between the leadership and thirteen organizational outcomes separately. The philosophy behind this book is to direct future research and practices rather than addressing the limits of current studies.



Motivating Language Theory

Author : Jacqueline Mayfield

Publisher : Springer

Page : 167 pages

File Size : 48,60 MB

Release : 2017-09-07

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 3319669303

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This book presents the findings, applications, and theoretical underpinnings of a unique leadership communication model: motivating language theory. Drawing from management, social science, and communication theories, motivating language theory demonstrates how leader-to-follower speech improves employee and organizational well-being and drives positive workplace outcomes (such as employee performance, retention, and job satisfaction) in a wide array of settings. It presents an integrated model based on empirical findings and theoretical developments from the past three decades to explore the three dimensions of motivating language: direction giving language, empathetic language, and meaning-making language. It will be a comprehensive source for its empirical relationships, generalizability, theoretical basis, and future directions for research and practice.



African-American Principals

Author : Kofi Lomotey

Publisher : Praeger

Page : 202 pages

File Size : 49,42 MB

Release : 1989-09-11

Category : Education

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This groundbreaking study fills a significant gap in educational research literature as it explores the problem of persistent and pervasive underachievement by African-American students in the public schools of the United States. Teacher quality, school resources, socio-economic status of students, cultural relevance of curriculum, and school leadership are a few of the factors that contribute to achievement or the lack of it by these students. Lomotey focuses on the impact of the African-American principal's leadership, its effect on the academic achievement of African-American students, and the day-to-day activities associated with school leadership. An early chapter reviews relevant research focusing on the connection between principal leadership and academic achievement in general. The extracted recurring qualities then form the basis for exploring whether African-American principals in more successful African-American schools possess the specific qualities suggested by the research. Lomotey finds that three additional and important characteristics are shared by his sample of principals: a deep commitment to the education of African-American children; a strong compassion for and understanding of both their students and the local community; and a sincere confidence in the ability of all African-American children to learn. The text is enhanced by two dozen tables that present the information discussed. An early chapter details the study's methodology with an overview and discussion of sampling and measurement procedures. Useful to students of educational administration, African American Principals: School Leadership and Success will also be of value in courses focusing on urban studies, school effectiveness, and school leadership. Black Studies programs addressing African-American education in America will find this a most necessary text. African-American educators--scholars and practitioners--as well as parents, community leaders, and other lay people will profit from the up-to-the-minute insights presented here.