Educational Management
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The main purpose of this paper was to determine the basic and the explanatory components of distributed leadership model in secondary schools. In order to extract the main components of distributed leadership a quantitative approach and exploratory factor analysis of main components were applied. Participants ...
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The main purpose of this paper was to determine the basic and the explanatory components of distributed leadership model in secondary schools. In order to extract the main components of distributed leadership a quantitative approach and exploratory factor analysis of main components were applied. Participants were included 377 teachers (242 female and 135 male teachers) who were selected as in access sample from 31 of Sanandaj’s secondary schools. They were asked to complete a questionnaire which was developed by researchers during the research field work. The questionnaire reliability was assessed by internal consistency of the questionnaire reporting Cronbach's alpha coefficient which was 0.95. The findings of exploratory factor analysis showed that the model’s main components based on teachers’ views consisted of four dimensions including the school’s professional and development growth (utilizing of the individuals’ capabilities for their professional development), trust-based interactions (social interaction based on organization framework), democracy, and full support (decision making freedom and flexibility in work). These four components explained 59.036 percent of data variance about the model.
R hoveida; A moghadam; A nikbakht
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The purpose of this research was to investigate the relationship between shared leadership and team work from the point of view of faculty members at the University of Esfahan. Research method was correlative and statistical population was all faculty members at the University of Esfahan in academic ...
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The purpose of this research was to investigate the relationship between shared leadership and team work from the point of view of faculty members at the University of Esfahan. Research method was correlative and statistical population was all faculty members at the University of Esfahan in academic year 1386-1387. Statistical sample consisted of 80 members who were selected randomly, through stratified method. To collect needed data, two questionnaires [shared leadership Konu & Vittanen (2008) and teamwork O'Neil (1998)] were used. They had proper reliability and validity with Cronach's Alfa 0.87 and 0.92, respectively. To analyze the data one-sample t test, Pearson's correlation and a multiple regression were used. Findings showed that average responses to shared leadership indices ranged from 1.91 to 2.38 and average responses to teamwork were 2/63. There was a significant relationship between shared leadership and teamwork (r =0.55, p<.05) that the highest correlation seen between cooperation and team work (r =0.383, p<.05). Also, a multiple regression showed that the components of shared leadership explained the variance of teamwork that the most beta belonged to cooperation and the least one belonged to motivation
