Childcare Teachers’ Professional Capital and the Effect of Director’s Transformation Leadership : Commitment to Change on Organizational Effectiveness = Childcare Teachers’ Professional Capital and the Effect of Director’s Transformation Leadership : Commitment to Change on Organizational Effectiveness

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This study examined the relationship between the professional capital of childcare teachers and the principal’s transformational leadership, with regard to change commitment and organizational effectiveness using the structural equation model. As a result of the study, it was found that change commitment had a mediating effect in the relationship between childcare teachers’ professional capital and organizational effectiveness. A mediating effect was revealed in the path of immersion. Therefore, this study confirmed that childcare teachers’ commitment to change is an important variable on the organizational effectiveness of daycare centers. Based on this finding, the director discussed the necessity of fostering collective intelligence through teacher interaction and forming an innovative daycare center culture where the principal and teachers learn from each other in order to immerse themselves in change. This study also suggested that the qualitative improvement of daycare centers can be achieved through organizational change centered on teachers.