Research on the Relations between the Transformational Leadership of Junior High school principals, the Openness Personality/Closeness Personality and the Learning Organization

• Main Authors: Y. S. Chang, 張易書
• Other Authors: 秦夢群
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2000
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/54803884456337172042

碩士 === 國立政治大學 === 教育學系 === 88 === This research is aimed mainly to help understand the status quo of such issues in Taiwan as the transformational leadership of junior high school principals, the transactional leadership, teacher’s openness personality and closeness personality, and the learning organization. My further emphasis is therefore put on: 1. the relations between the transformational leadership of junior high school principals, the transactional leadership, teacher’s openness personality and closeness personality, and the learning organization, 2. the relations between the teacher’s openness personality/closeness personality and the principal’s cognitive leadership mode, 3. the analysis of the interactive effects of the transformational leadership of junior high school principals and teacher’s openness personality and closeness personality on the learning organization, 4. the analysis of the transactional leadership of junior high school principals and teacher’s openness personality and closeness personality on learning organization, and 5. the study on the relations between junior high school teacher’s background variables and the learning organization. This research sampled the teachers in Taiwan by means of purposive sampling and 517 effective samples were received and analyzed from questionnaires delivered to 701 teachers from 20 junior high schools. The research tools used in this paper were the principal transformational leadership scale, the transactional leadership scale, the dogmation scale, and the learning organization scale according to which this research is conducted. The statistic analysis was made mainly according to multi-variables analysis, single variable analysis, independently sampling variables as well as other descriptive statistical tools. This paper is concluded as: 1. that the status quo of junior high school teacher’s transformational leadership/ transactional leadership and teacher’s openness personality / closeness personality, and the learning organization is provided and analyzed, 2. that a junior high school principal, by employing different degrees of transformational leadership, may impose an effect on the characteristics of teacher’s learning organization , 3. that a junior high school principal, in terms of employing transactional leadership, may impose an effect on the characteristics of teacher’s learning organization, 4. a teacher with closeness personality recognizes more details and facts with respect to the learning organization than a teacher with openness personality, 5. that the transformational leadership, used by a junior high school principal, and the teacher’s openness or closeness personality have an interactive effect on the learning organization, but only to a limited degree, 6. that the transformational leadership used by a junior high school principal and the teacher’s openness or closeness personality have a partially interactive effect on the learning organization, 7. that the transformational leadership used by a junior high school principal have more influence on the teachers with closeness personality, and 8. that the background variables of a teacher have a significant influence on his/her learning organization. This research mainly discusses the results aforementioned and proffers recommendations with respect to the personnel concerned and those who would like to conduct any future research. These recommendations are summarized as: 1. that the education authorities should give an impetus to a learning-typed society by declaring and promoting their policies as well as by designing concrete plans which are aimed to be implemented throughout all educational units, including those at basic level, 2. that symposia characterizing research and study on the learning organization should be held on a regular basis, which may offer teachers an opportunity for further research and study, 3. that a channel of R&S should be established, mainly targeting principals, and the courses should be designed to promote their growth, 4. that a principal should make use of transformational leadership extensively in order to help his teachers ameliorate their recognition of the learning organization, 5. that a principal should make use of transactional leadership extensively in order to help his teachers ameliorate their recognition of the learning organization, 6. that a principal should recognize that a teacher’s openness personality or closeness personality has its impact on the learning organization, 7. that a principal should encourage female teachers, junior teachers, and teachers who do not take on administrative work to participate in the operations of school affairs. 8. that teachers themselves should take part in the de facto operations of school affairs in a wide basis, and 9. that thereupon and with respect to future study that a research method could be applied in ways other than questionnaires, that other research variables could be further included to discover other parameters that might influence the learning organization, and that research tools should be designed to suit local conditions where the researchers are.