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Da'as, Rima'a; Ganon-Shilon, Sherry; Schechter, Chen; Qadach, Mowafaq – International Journal of Educational Management, 2021
Purpose: This conceptual paper explores a novel model explaining teachers' perceptions of their effective leader through the lens of implicit leadership theory (ILT), using the concepts of school principals' sense-making and cognitive complexity (CC). Design/methodology/approach: The sense-making framework and CC theory were used to explain ILT,…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Instructional Leadership, Teacher Attitudes
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Qadach, Mowafaq; Schechter, Chen; Da'as, Rima'a – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2020
Purpose: This study explored a theoretical model proposing direct and mediated effects for principals' characteristics--principals' information-processing mechanisms (PIPMs) and instructional leadership (IL)--with organizational learning mechanisms (OLMs), for schools' OLMs with teachers' characteristics--teachers' affective commitment (TAC),…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Characteristics, Instructional Leadership, Teacher Characteristics
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Da'as, Rima'a; Schechter, Chen; Qadach, Mowafaq – Journal of Educational Administration, 2019
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to test an innovative model for exploring the direct and indirect relationships between principals' cognitive complexity (CC), schools' absorptive capacity (ACAP), a teacher's affective commitment and a teacher's intent to leave. Design/methodology/approach: Data were collected from a survey of 1,664 teachers…
Descriptors: Principals, Instructional Leadership, Models, Teacher Persistence
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Shaked, Haim; Schechter, Chen – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2017
Systems thinking is a holistic approach that puts the study of wholes before that of parts. This study explores systems thinking among school middle leaders--teachers who have management responsibility for a team of teachers or for an aspect of the school's work. Interviews were held with 93 school coordinators, among them year heads, heads of…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, School Administration, Instructional Leadership, Teacher Leadership