Relationship between principal's emotional intelligence, leadership style and teacher's organizational trust and commitment in Golestan, Iran

Various studies have been done in commitment, however, only a few of them were related to educational organizations. Relatively, there is still very limited research which supports the argument that school characteristics can influence the level of teachers’ commitment. The present study therefore a...

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Main Author: Mirza, Mojgan
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/31670/7/FEM%202012%206R%20pdf.pdf
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description Various studies have been done in commitment, however, only a few of them were related to educational organizations. Relatively, there is still very limited research which supports the argument that school characteristics can influence the level of teachers’ commitment. The present study therefore aims to determine the influence of the school principals’ emotional intelligence and leadership styles on development of the teachers’ trust and commitment. This study employed survey design based upon the research questions. The study was carried out among 268 school’s principals and 513 teachers in Golestan Province, Iran. The descriptive findings show average-effective functioning category for principals’ emotional intelligence. In ddition, principals exhibit a transformational leadership style. Moreover, descriptive statistics show a ranking with teachers’ trust in co-worker, trust in supervisor and trust in Stepwise Multiple Regression indicates that principal’s emotional intelligence,transformational leadership style and teacher’s trust, significantly contributed towards teacher’s commitment. Path analysis indicates an influential ranking on teacher’s commitment by principal’s emotional intelligence, transformational leadership style, and teacher’s trust, respectively. Moreover, fit indices in Structure Equation Model show that proposed model of transformational leadership style is adequately fitted to collected data of the study. Generally, the study concludes that principals’ emotional intelligence and leadership styles are important variables in explain the teacher’s trust and commitment.
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spelling upm.eprints-316702024-08-28T01:25:49Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/31670/ Relationship between principal's emotional intelligence, leadership style and teacher's organizational trust and commitment in Golestan, Iran Mirza, Mojgan Various studies have been done in commitment, however, only a few of them were related to educational organizations. Relatively, there is still very limited research which supports the argument that school characteristics can influence the level of teachers’ commitment. The present study therefore aims to determine the influence of the school principals’ emotional intelligence and leadership styles on development of the teachers’ trust and commitment. This study employed survey design based upon the research questions. The study was carried out among 268 school’s principals and 513 teachers in Golestan Province, Iran. The descriptive findings show average-effective functioning category for principals’ emotional intelligence. In ddition, principals exhibit a transformational leadership style. Moreover, descriptive statistics show a ranking with teachers’ trust in co-worker, trust in supervisor and trust in Stepwise Multiple Regression indicates that principal’s emotional intelligence,transformational leadership style and teacher’s trust, significantly contributed towards teacher’s commitment. Path analysis indicates an influential ranking on teacher’s commitment by principal’s emotional intelligence, transformational leadership style, and teacher’s trust, respectively. Moreover, fit indices in Structure Equation Model show that proposed model of transformational leadership style is adequately fitted to collected data of the study. Generally, the study concludes that principals’ emotional intelligence and leadership styles are important variables in explain the teacher’s trust and commitment. 2012-07 Thesis NonPeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/31670/7/FEM%202012%206R%20pdf.pdf Mirza, Mojgan (2012) Relationship between principal's emotional intelligence, leadership style and teacher's organizational trust and commitment in Golestan, Iran. Doctoral thesis, Universiti Putra Malaysia. Leadership - Iran Emotional intelligence - Iran School management and organization - Iran
spellingShingle Leadership - Iran
Emotional intelligence - Iran
School management and organization - Iran
Mirza, Mojgan
Relationship between principal's emotional intelligence, leadership style and teacher's organizational trust and commitment in Golestan, Iran
title Relationship between principal's emotional intelligence, leadership style and teacher's organizational trust and commitment in Golestan, Iran
title_full Relationship between principal's emotional intelligence, leadership style and teacher's organizational trust and commitment in Golestan, Iran
title_fullStr Relationship between principal's emotional intelligence, leadership style and teacher's organizational trust and commitment in Golestan, Iran
title_full_unstemmed Relationship between principal's emotional intelligence, leadership style and teacher's organizational trust and commitment in Golestan, Iran
title_short Relationship between principal's emotional intelligence, leadership style and teacher's organizational trust and commitment in Golestan, Iran
title_sort relationship between principal s emotional intelligence leadership style and teacher s organizational trust and commitment in golestan iran
topic Leadership - Iran
Emotional intelligence - Iran
School management and organization - Iran
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/31670/7/FEM%202012%206R%20pdf.pdf
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