A Study on the Relationships among Principals’ Paternalistic Leadership, Teachers’ Work Value and Job Involvement: Elementary Schools in Taoyuan County as an Example

• Main Authors: Li-Wen Xia, 夏立文
• Other Authors: Ching-Lin Yang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2012
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/56901779995203210498

碩士 === 中原大學 === 教育研究所 === 100 === Abstract This study investigates the current situation, different background variables effecting, forecast and relationships of principals’ paternalistic leadership, teachers’ work value and job involvement of Taoyuan County. According to “principals’ paternalistic leadership, teachers’ work value and job involvement”, based in Taoyuan County using stratified random sampling of 912 teachers and 76 principals from 76 schools. Receiving back 918 valid ones after the elimination of 14 invalid ones. The valid response rate is 98.4%. All data collected were analyzed by the methods of descriptive statistics, independent -test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson correlation, canonical correlation, SEM and cluster analysis. The conclusions are as follows: 1.The highest dimension of elementary school principals’ paternalistic leadership is “moral leadership”, the lowest dimension is “authoritarianism leadership”; the highest dimension of teachers’ work value is “altruism”, the lowest dimension is “organization safety”; the highest dimension of job involvement is “job delectation”, the lowest dimension is “job identification”. 2.Significant differences were found partly in the elementary school teachers’ and principals’ perception of whole principals’ paternalistic leadership, given the consideration of teachers’ and principals’ demographic variations: sex, school scale, school location and identification. 3.Significant differences were found partly in the elementary school teachers’ perception of whole teachers’ work value, given the consideration of teachers’ demographic variations: age, seniority, school record, administrative duties, school scale and school location. 4.Significant differences were found partly in the elementary school teachers’ perception of whole job involvement , given the consideration of teachers’ demographic variations: seniority, administrative duties, school scale and school location. 5.There is a positive correlation from principals’ paternalistic leadership, teachers’ work value and job involvement partly. 6.The best forecasting of the dimensions of teachers’ job involvement is “ altruism”. 7.Teachers’ work value is a moderate variable between some dimension of principals’ paternalistic leadership and job involvement. 8.The cluster have discovered among principals’ paternalistic leadership, teachers’ work value and job involvement in Taoyuan County. According to the results above, offering suggests as follows: 1.To educational administrations: (1) During the process to cultivation, thorough study and selection of principals, stressed that the altruism connotation. (2) Recognize teachers’ work value, upgrade teachers’ social reputation. (3) Encourge teachers to take up the position of administrative duty and refresher course of occuptation. 2.To principals: (1) Stress benevolence and moral leadership, transform authoritarianism leadership into work-oriented appropriately. (2) Stress work-oriented leadership and boost accountability. (3) Set rotation system and multi-communication. (4) Encourage the senior teachers to build professional learning community. 3.To teachers: (1) Take part in refresher course of occuptation positively. (2) Participate in formal or informal teachers’ activities. (3) Take up the position of administrative duty positively. 4.To future research: （1）The reason about test difference of seniority and administrative duties results may further analyze and discuss. （2）The doubt that interaction effects in the paternalistic leadership may further research. （3）Through the depth interviews, qualitative research and advanced statistical methods to quantify the results and do more dimensions test for interaction. （4）Increase the process of experts’ validity and the relevance of researching tools, make the research results better.