The relationship between leadership styles of principals and the characteristics of school organization at the initial developmental stage of elementary schools

• Main Authors: Wu, Mei-hua, 吳美華
• Other Authors: Huang Men-Fon
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 1996
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/11337960810604896146

碩士 === 國立台北師範學院 === 國民教育研究所 === 85 === The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between leader ship styles of prinsipals and characteristics of school organization at the initial developmental stage of elementary schools. Content analysis of the li terature and the questionnaire survey research method were employed. The subjec ts of this research were 320 teachers from 32 elementary schools which were set up from 1990 to 1994 in Taipei metropolitan area. Data were analyzed by Pearson product moment correlation and ANOVA. Result of this study were summarized as follows:(1) Those schools at the initial developmental stage were mostly located in newly developed community. Teachers in these schools tended to be younger, more vigorous, more enthusiastic, and more loyal to schools,but less cohesive. (2) Teachers wuth different perceptions of the characteristics of their schools. (3) No particular leadership style was found to have significantly high frequency. However,backgrounds and characterics of principals affected their adoption of leadership style.(4) Principals have high leadership efficacy at the stage. Most principals can accomplish the developmental goals of their schools.