| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立中正大學 === 教育學研究所 === 101 === A Study of the Relationship between Elementary School Principals’ Leadership Style Incorporating Pre-Qin Confucian Thoughts and Teachers’ Job Involvement in Yunlin County
Abstract
This study aimed to probe into of how the elementary school principals in Yunlin County used Pre-Qin Confucian thoughts to foster teachers’ job involvement. It also intended to analyze the different variables of teachers' backgrounds and school environment among the principals' leadership and teachers' job involvement. The next was to discuss the relevances and predictions between the two.
The study adopted the questionnaire survey, and the subjects were the elementary teachers in Yunlin County filling out the questionnaires. Stratified random sampling was adopted to select 600 elementary teachers, and 434 valid surveys were returned. The returned rate was 72.33%. The data was analyzed statistically, including standard deviation, t-tests, one-way ANOVA, Pearson’s product-moment correlation, multiple stepwise-regressions, and etc. Conclusions can be made as follows:
1.Elementary school teachers in Yunlin County perceived a high level on the leadership styles of principals’ using Pre-Qin Confucian thoughts. Among the leadership styles, treating teachers with courtesy was rated at the highest level; however, treating teachers with justice was rated at the lowest level.
2.A significant difference showed on the perception of “principals’ using Pre-
Qin Confucian thoughts in their leadership” based on the variables including
teachers’ genders, teachers’ education backgrounds, teachers’ current
positions, school sizes and school districts. Particularly, the male teachers
with Master’s degrees, serving directors in the small schools under 6 classes
had higher values on principals’ Confucian leadership styles than the others.
3.Elementary school teachers in Yunlin County perceived a high value on the job involvement. Among the factors of job involvement, the pleasure of working was rated at the highest level; however, the work recognition was rated at the lowest level.
4.The variables including teachers’ positions and school sizes made the significant difference on the elementary school teachers’ job involvement in Yunlin County. Particularly, the teachers who served as directors in the small schools under 6 classes had higher values on teachers’ job involvement than the others.
5.There was a significant positive correlation between the principals’ using Pre-
Qin Confucian thoughts and the teachers’ job involvement.
6.The principals’ using Pre-Qin Confucian thoughts in their leadership had a
significant impact on the teachers’ job involvement, and the data was 37.1%.
Finally, the findings derived from this study aimed to provide the educational institutions, principals and teachers in elementary schools as references for the future study.
Keywords: elementary school principal, elementary school teacher, principals’ leadership style of using Pre-Qin Confucian thoughts, job involvement
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