A Study on the School Organizational Climate and Principal Leadership Behaviors：A Case of A Junior High School

• Main Authors: Yi-ling Chen, 陳怡伶
• Other Authors: 姜麗娟
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/90402917194661876520

碩士 === 國立臺南大學 === 教育經營與管理研究所碩士班 === 99 === This study aims to understand two things: one is the principal''s and teachers’perception and perception gaps of the school climate and the principal leadership behaviors, and the other is the principal''s responses to the perception gaps. Hence, this study focused on the principal and the teachers at a junior high school in Tainan County , through questionnaire and interview, to understand the school climate and discuss the principal''s and teachers’ perception , perception gaps, and the principal''s responses toward perception gaps, based on the structure of principal leadership behaviors from School Organizational Climate Theory. The study results are as follows. 1. The case school is disengaged organizational climate；the principal and the teachers also have negative perception of the school climate and they think it’s related to several teachers’ behaviors, but the interaction in groupscules is positive. 2. The school climate of this case is dynamic, inherits the climate during the former principal period, and doesn’t get better after the principal’s coming. 3. The principal thiks he supports and directs the teachers, and doesn’t restrict teachers, but the teachers have lower perception of the principal’s supportive and directive behaviors and higher perception of restrictive behaviors. 4. The intensity of the interaction between the principal and the teachers has influence on the teachers’ perception of the principal’s supportive behaviors, and the principal and teachers’different standpoints of roles and different viewpoins on job requirements cause the perception gaps toward directive and restrictive behaviors. 5. The principal attributes the teachers’ perception gaps to the teachers’ unawareness of his leadership behaviors, but he is willing to revise some of his leadership behaviors. At last, according to the study results, suggestion for principal leadership, teachers, and future studies are proposed.