A Study on the Relationship among Principals’ Micro-political Leadership, Organizational Trust and School Effectiveness in Elementary Schools

• Main Authors: Chien, Miao-Chuan, 簡妙娟
• Other Authors: LIN, YAO-SHENG
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2018
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/zz7f58

博士 === 國立臺北教育大學 === 教育經營與管理學系 === 106 === The main purposes of this study are to understand the current situations and the realationships of principals’ micro-political leadership, organizational trust and school effectiveness in elementary schools, and to analyze the differences among principals’ micro-political leadership, organizational trust and school effectiveness among different teachers and school environment backgrounds in elementary schools. Furthermore, it also explores the relationships among principals’ micro-political leadership, organizational trust and school effectiveness in elementary schools. Finally, it verifies the proper fit situation of the structural equation model among principals’ micro-political leadership, organizational trust and school effectiveness in elementary schools. To achieve these purposes, this study adopts a questionnaire survey. “The investigative questionnaire of relationships among principals’ micro-political leadership, organizational trust and school effectiveness in elementary schools”, is the main tool we use. The samples are 1,600 teachers selected from elementary schools in Taiwan, and 861 of the distributed copies are returned as valid. The return rate is 54%. A series of statistical methods such as descriptive statistics, t-test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson product-moment correlation, stepwise multiple regression analysis and structural equation model are conducted to analyze the data collected. The conclusions of this study are as follows: 1.Elementary school principals showed above moderate performances on their micro-political leadership in overall and various aspects, especially the highest score in "Balanced interests" but the lowest in "Handling conflicts ". 2.Elementary schools showed above moderate performances on their organizational trust in overall and various aspects, especially the highest score in " Leader trust" but the lowest in " System trust ". 3.Elementary schools showed above moderate performances on their school effectiveness in overall and various aspects, especially the highest score in " School resources " but the lowest in " Student performance ". 4.Educators’ perception of principals’ micro-political leadership showed significant differences. 5.Educators’ perception of organizational trust showed significant differences. 6.Educators’ perception of effectiveness of school showed significant differences. 7.There was a significant positive correlation among principals' micro-political leadership, organizational trust and school effectiveness. 8.The proper fit situation of structural equation model among principals’ micro-political leadership, organizational trust and school effectivenes was verified as positive, and can explain the relationships among these main variables. According to the conclusions, some suggestions are provided as references for principals in elementary schools, Department of Education, school teachers and future follow-up study.