| Summary: | 碩士 === 臺北市立大學 === 國民小學教師在職進修公民與社會教學碩士學位班 === 103 === This research aimed to investigate the public elementary school teachers in New Taipei City for their status of morale and the causal relationship between factors and morale. The thesis of this study is to build a causal model according to the related document and the result of the research. Three main components, school culture, principal leadership, and parent participation were adopted as the factors impacting the morale.
This research took the public elementary school teachers in New Taipei City as the population. This questionnaire was delivered to 500 volunteers. However, of these returned, only 384 were valid, and questionnaire return rate was 80%. The data of this research was analyzed by using SPSS18.0 and AMOS8.0 softwares. The statistical methods, T-test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson’s correlation and SEM (structural equation modeling) were adopted to ascertain the causal relationship between the the public elementary school teachers in New Taipei City and the factors.
According to the results of the study, the conclusions were summarized as following.
1. The scores of the public elementary school teachers’ overall morale belongs to high degree. Among the three dimensions, teachers score higher in teamwork than in job involvement, and organizational identification.
2. School culture and parent participation showed significant direct effect on teachers’ morale. It means that when school culture and parent participation score higher, the degree of morale will also be higher. Moreover, principal leadership had no significant direct effect on teachers’ morale.
3. Through school culture, principal leadership and parent participation had a significant indirect effect on morale. It means when principal leadership and parent participation scored higher, the school culture will be higher, and the morale will also be elevated by them.
Finally, based on the theories and the statistical analysis, this study provides the suggestions for improving teachers’ morale for the management of education, school administrators and future researchers.
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