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Benoliel, Pascale; Shaked, Haim; Nadav, Nehama; Schechter, Chen – Journal of Educational Administration, 2021
Purpose: Relying on information processing and attribution theories, which relate to the formation of leadership perceptions and attributes, the current study seeks to examine the relationship between demographic variables and principals' systems thinking (PST) in an integrated model. The present study purpose was threefold: first, the study seeks…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Characteristics, School Administration
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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 – Journal of School Leadership, 2016
Systems thinking, a framework for seeing the whole, is an effective means of dealing with real-world problems. This study explored the sources of systems thinking in school leadership. Qualitative data were collected via 82 semistructured interviews and 6 focus groups, among pre-service principals, novice principals and experienced principals.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Instructional Leadership, Systems Approach
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Schechter, Chen; Qadach, Mowafaq; Da'as, Rima'a – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
This research tested a theoretical model that links (directly and indirectly) principals' characteristics--principals' information-processing mechanisms (PIPMs) and instructional leadership (IL)--with organizational learning mechanisms (OLMs), the latter with teacher characteristics (teachers' affective commitment, collective teacher efficacy,…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Characteristics, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers