Principal change leadership competencies and teacher attitudes toward change: the mediating effects of teacher change beliefs
Autor: | Omar Abdull Kareem, Tai Mei Kin, Mohamad Sahari Nordin, Khuan Wai Bing |
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Rok vydání: | 2017 |
Předmět: |
Change leadership
Strategy and Management media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Principal (computer security) 050301 education Leadership Structural equation modeling Education Test (assessment) Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) 0502 economics and business Statistical analysis Attitude change Psychology 0503 education Social psychology 050203 business & management media_common |
Zdroj: | International Journal of Leadership in Education. 21:427-446 |
ISSN: | 1464-5092 1360-3124 |
DOI: | 10.1080/13603124.2016.1272719 |
Popis: | This study investigates the relationship between Principal Change Leadership Competencies, Teacher Change Beliefs and Teacher Attitudes toward Change. A total of 936 teachers from 47 High Performing Secondary Schools in Malaysia completed the survey. Structural equation modelling was applied to test the models. Firstly, the results showed that Principal Change Leadership Competencies was significantly related to Teacher Change Beliefs and implied that if school principals equipped themselves with sufficient Principal Change Leadership Competencies, Teacher Change Beliefs can certainly be enhanced. Secondly, Teacher Change Beliefs was significantly related to Teacher Attitudes toward Change whereby the stronger the Teacher Change Beliefs, the greater the enhancement of Teacher Attitudes toward Change. Thirdly, Teacher Change Beliefs was indeed a total mediator in the relationship of Principal Change Leadership Competencies and Teacher Attitudes toward Change. Put simply, via Teacher Change Beliefs,... |
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