The purposes of this study are to clarify the relationship between school principals' transformational leadership and teachers' commitment degrees, to offer fundamental materials effective for achieving the school organizations' goals, to examine how ...
The purposes of this study are to clarify the relationship between school principals' transformational leadership and teachers' commitment degrees, to offer fundamental materials effective for achieving the school organizations' goals, to examine how school principals' transformational leadership and teachers' commitment degrees has been recognized according to teachers' general characteristics, and to investigate differences of teachers commitment degrees shown by each level of school principals' transformational leadership that teachers recognize.
With these purposes, this study executed both documentary researches and on-the-spot survey concerning the relationship between school principals' transformational leadership and teachers' commitment degrees and teachers' opinions. As for the site investigation, the Principal's Transformational Leadership Questionnaire(PTLQ) that was developed by No, Jong Hee of HanYang University was adopted to measure school principals' transformational leadership, and teachers' commitment degrees were measured by OCQ developed by Poerter of California University, Steer of Oakland University, Boulian of Yale University, and many preceding studies were referred to, modified, and supplemented adjusting to these research purposes.
In the questionnaire examining school principals' transformational leadership, factors of lower rank consist of 3 areas such as 'instruction for change', 'respecting man's life and dignity', and 'taking the initiative', and these 3 areas included 15 questions. The questions asking teachers' commitment degrees were made up of 15 questions of 3 lower areas such as 'dedicating', 'volunteering', and 'accepting values'.
These questions were distributed to 320 teachers who work at 30 elementary and middle schools located at Seoul and the National Capital region, and 301 copies are analyzed.
The statistical and demonstrative analysis methods used in this study are Average Analysis, One way Anova, t-test, Correlation Analysis, and Regression analysis. The data were verified at the significance level of p<.05, and SPSSWIN9.0 program was adopted to statistically examine the collected data.
The study results obtained from the above research and study activity are as follows;
First, generally, teachers recognized school principals' transformational leadership at a high level. Particularly, the teachers who have a longer-term teaching experience, whose ages are higher, who are appointed at additional positions, who work in elementary schools rather than in middle schools, recognized school principals' transformational leadership at a high level. And the larger the scale of school, the higher was the cognition level.
Second, the teachers who have a longer-term teaching experience, whose ages are higher, and who work in elementary schools rather than in middle schools, showed their dedicating-will at a high level.
Third, in case that the level of school principals' transformational leadership as teachers recognize is high, the degree of teacher's commitment is high; in case that the level of school principals' transformational leadership as teachers recognize is low, the degree of teacher's commitment is low. Particularly, among the lower ranked factors affecting school principals' transformational leadership, the factor that had the biggest influence on teachers' commitment degrees was 'respecting man's life and dignity'.