The Relationships among School Principals’ Paternalistic Leadership, Teachers’ Efficacy, Job Satisfaction, and Organizational Commitment of Junior High Schools in Taoyuan County

• Main Authors: Chia-Ling Chiang, 江嘉羚
• Other Authors: Shu-hui Chang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2008
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/89735558276289763845

碩士 === 中原大學 === 教育研究所 === 96 === The purpose of the present study was to investigate junior high school principals’ paternalistic leadership in Taoyuan County in Taiwan. The questionnaires were constructed into four subscales: principals’ paternalistic leadership, teachers’ efficacy, job satisfaction, and organizational commitment. The major research question was to investigate the relationship model among teachers’ efficacy, job satisfaction, and organizational commitment through various types of paternalistic leadership for junior high school principals. The questionnaires were mailed to the principals and teachers who were sampled from Taoyuan County and valid sample included 29 principals and 403 teachers. The valid return rate was 82.9% for principals’ sample and 81.4% for teachers’ sample. The major findings are as the following: 1.There were no significant differences of perception of paternalistic leadership for principals in terms of their background variables such as gender and serving years. 2.There were significant differences of perception of principal’s paternalistic leadership for teachers in terms of their background variables such as gender and positions. 3.There were significant differences of perception of efficacy for teachers in terms of their background variables such as age, the educational degree, training resources, serving years and positions. 4.There were significant differences of perception of job satisfaction for teachers in terms of their background variables such as gender, age, serving years and positions. 5.There were significant differences of perception of organizational commitment for teachers in terms of their background variables such as school size, age, educational degree, training resources, serving years and positions. 6.There were significant differences of perception of job satisfaction and organizational commitment for teachers in terms of their principals’ paternalistic leadership type. 7.The results of the hypothesized model “the relationship model among teachers’ efficacy, job satisfaction, and organizational commitment through paternalistic leadership of junior high school principals” showed that it fitted the empirically observed data well and can be used to explain the empirically observed data.