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Devos, Geert; Tuytens, Melissa; Hulpia, Hester – American Journal of Education, 2014
This study examines the relation between principals' leadership and teachers' organizational commitment, mediated by distributed leadership. Data were collected from 1,495 teachers in 46 secondary schools. Structural equation modeling indicated that the effect of principals' leadership on teachers' organizational commitment is…
Descriptors: Principals, Instructional Leadership, Teacher Persistence, Leadership Qualities
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Devos, Geert; Hulpia, Hester; Tuytens, Melissa; Sinnaeve, Ilse – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2013
This study explores the relationship between self-awareness of school leaders and variables related to school culture and change. We used the self-other rating agreement model of Atwater and Yammarino (1997) as an indication of school leader self-awareness. Based on the difference between their own leadership rating and the teachers' rating,…
Descriptors: School Culture, Teacher Administrator Relationship, Teacher Attitudes, Self Evaluation (Individuals)
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Hulpia, Hester; Devos, Geert; Van Keer, Hilde – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2011
Purpose: In this study the relationship between school leadership and teachers' organizational commitment is examined by taking into account a distributed leadership perspective. The relation between teachers' organizational commitment and contextual variables of teachers' perceptions of the quality and the source of the supportive and supervisory…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Instructional Leadership, Secondary School Teachers, Participative Decision Making
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Hulpia, Hester; Devos, Geert – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2010
The present study explores the relation between distributed leadership and teachers' organizational commitment. Semi-structured interviews with teachers and school leaders of secondary schools were conducted. A comparative analysis of four schools with high and four schools with low committed teachers was carried out. Findings revealed differences…
Descriptors: Interviews, Comparative Analysis, Instructional Leadership, Qualitative Research
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Hulpia, Hester; Devos, Geert; Van Keer, Hilde – Journal of Educational Research, 2009
In the present study the effects of a cooperative leadership team, distributed leadership, participative decision-making, and context variables on teachers' organizational commitment are investigated. Multilevel analyses on data from 1522 teachers indicated that 9% of the variance in teachers' organizational commitment is attributable to…
Descriptors: Organizational Climate, Employment Experience, Leadership, Power Structure
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Hulpia, Hester; Devos, Geert – Educational Studies, 2009
The main purpose of this study was to map school leaders' perceptions concerning the cooperation of the leadership team, the distribution of leadership functions and participative decision-making, and to asses their relative weight in terms of predicting school leaders' job satisfaction. Also, the effect of demographical and structural school…
Descriptors: Job Satisfaction, School Size, Cooperation, Multiple Regression Analysis
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Hulpia, Hester; Devos, Geert; Rosseel, Yves – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2009
This study investigates the relation between distributed leadership, the cohesion of the leadership team, participative decision-making, context variables, and the organizational commitment and job satisfaction of teachers and teacher leaders. A questionnaire was administered to teachers and teacher leaders (n = 1770) from 46 large secondary…
Descriptors: Secondary Schools, Job Satisfaction, Transformational Leadership, Questionnaires