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Zacher, Hannes; Robinson, Alecia J.; Rosing, Kathrin – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2016
The ambidexterity theory of leadership for innovation proposes that leaders' opening and closing behaviors positively predict employees' exploration and exploitation behaviors, respectively. The interaction of exploration and exploitation behaviors, in turn, is assumed to influence employee innovative performance, such that innovative performance…
Descriptors: Handedness, Leadership, Employees, Leaders
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McCarley, Troy A.; Peters, Michelle L.; Decman, John M. – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2016
Across the nation, quality leadership and positive school climate are critical to the success of every principal, student, and school. As a result, this study examined the relationship between teacher perceptions of the degree to which a principal displays the factors of transformational leadership and the perceived school climate. A purposeful…
Descriptors: Transformational Leadership, Educational Environment, High Schools, Urban Schools
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Seyal, Afzaal H. – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
This pioneering study discusses the thirty-five Bruneian technical & vocational institutions of top management (principals, deputy principals, senior masters, ICT coordinators and technical administrators) leadership style with the adoption of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). The study uses a survey approach further to…
Descriptors: Transformational Leadership, Technology Integration, Adoption (Ideas), Evidence
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Adams, Curt M.; Olsen, Jentre J.; Ware, Jordan K. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2017
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to define student learning capacity and to examine the role of the school principal in nurturing it. Method: The study used cross-sectional data from 3,175 students in 70 schools located in a metropolitan area of a Southwestern city. We tested three hypotheses by following a conventional modeling building…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Role, Hypothesis Testing, Student Needs
Kieres, Katherine H. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Based on Bass and Riggio's (2006) Augmentation Model of Transactional and Transformational Leadership, this quantitative study sought to identify the amount of variance in teacher job satisfaction and organizational commitment that can be explained by principals' transformational leadership behaviors, above and beyond the influence of…
Descriptors: Transformational Leadership, Job Satisfaction, Statistical Analysis, Principals
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Kieres, Katherine H.; Gutmore, Daniel – Education Leadership Review of Doctoral Research, 2014
Based on Bass and Riggio's (2006) Augmentation Model of Transactional and Transformational Leadership, this quantitative study sought to identify the amount of variance in teacher job satisfaction and organizational commitment that can be explained by principals' transformational leadership behaviors, above and beyond the influence of…
Descriptors: Transformational Leadership, Job Satisfaction, Teacher Attitudes, Sense of Community
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Hauserman, Cal P.; Ivankova, Nataliya V.; Stick, Sheldon L. – Journal of School Leadership, 2013
This mixed methods sequential explanatory study utilized the Multi-factor Leadership Questionnaire, responses to open-ended questions, and in-depth interviews to identify transformational leadership qualities that were present among principals in Alberta, Canada. The first quantitative phase consisted of a random sample of 135 schools (with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mixed Methods Research, Questionnaires, Interviews
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Ibrahim Duyar; Sedat Gumus; Mehmet Sukru Bellibas – International Journal of Educational Management, 2013
Purpose: The purpose of the current study was to investigate whether the instructional and administrative leadership practices of principals and professional collaboration of teachers predict teachers' self-efficacy and job satisfaction in Turkish middle schools. Design/methodology/approach: By applying a causal comparative design and a multilevel…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Work Attitudes, Principals, Instructional Leadership
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Mulford, Bill – International Journal of Educational Leadership and Management, 2013
The research reported in this article builds on work commenced eight years ago with reviewing the literature and models of successful school leadership for improved student outcomes. When the findings of this review were combined with the results from case studies of successful schools it resulted in a preliminary model of successful school…
Descriptors: Capacity Building, Success, Student Improvement, Leadership Effectiveness
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Lu, Jiafang; Jiang, Xinhui; Yu, Huen; Li, Dongyu – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2015
This study focused on the collaborative structure-building behavior of school principals and examined how such behavior affects teacher empowerment. More important, it tested the mediating effects of participative management and learning culture. By collecting nested data from 104 schools in Hong Kong and adopting multilevel structural equation…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Professional Autonomy, Teacher Empowerment, Principals
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Dumay, Xavier; Galand, Benoit – British Educational Research Journal, 2012
A growing body of research indicates that transformational leadership affects teachers' commitment to their school. The present study aims to investigate the processes explaining this effect at the organisational level. Using a sample of 660 teachers within 50 primary French-speaking Belgian schools, the authors test a model hypothesising that the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Motivation, Self Efficacy
McCarley, Troy A. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study examined the relationship between teacher perceptions of the degree to which a principal displays the factors of transformational leadership (idealized attributes, idealized behaviors, inspirational motivation, intellectual stimulations, and individual considerations) and the perceived school climate (supportive principal behavior,…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, School Culture, Transformational Leadership, Teacher Behavior
Hauserman, Calvin P.; Ivankova, Nataliya V.; Stick, Sheldon L. – Online Submission, 2007
This mixed method study used survey research, open-ended questions, and interviews to identify transformational leadership qualities among principals of publicly funded schools in the Province of Alberta, Canada. Five-hundred-nine teachers (37.7%) from a random sample of schools in the province completed the Multifactor leadership Questionnaire…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Principals, Instructional Leadership