فصلنامه رهبری و مدیریت آموزشی
سال ششم شماره 4 (زمستان 1391)

The purpose of this research is to study the effect of management styles of managers on the participation of parents in female middle schools in Sanandaj city. The method of this research is correlational descriptive. The participants of this study were 200 parents and all the teachers chosen from two schools. The data collection tools included two researcher-made questionnaires which were about the management styles of managers and the participation of parents, with 20 and 25 items accordingly. Mean, SD and t-test independent groups were used for dayta analysis. The results indicated that collaborative management positively affects the participation of parents in such affairs as supporting home-school relationship, strengthening school-community relationship, and parents involvement in school administration.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between satisfaction, loyalty and commitment among undergraduate students in Islamic Azad University, Iaueghlid Branch. This applied research used survey method for collection of data and correlation type for data analysis. The population of the study consisted of all 196 undergraduate students of Islamic Azad University, Iaueghlid Branch, 89 males and 107 females, randomly selected. The data collection tools included Student Satisfaction Survey (SSS) and a researcher-made questionnaire for the measurement of loyalty and commitment of the students. The reliability of the questionnaires was 0/96 and 0/86, based on the Cronbach's Alpha Coefficient. The data collected was analyzed by Pearson correlation and T-test for independent groups. Results showed that there was a significant positive relationship between student satisfaction and student commitment; student satisfaction and student loyalty; and student commitment and student loyalty. Furthermore, there were no statistically significant differences between satisfaction, commitment and loyalty of male and female students.

The purpose of this study is to determine the relationship between Emotional Intelligence and Organizational Learning among staffs of Education Offices in Moghan townships in 2011. Statistical population for the research consisted of all 170 staffs and a statistical sample of 118 staffs was randomly selected by use of Morgan’s table. Standard questionnaire of Siberia shirnk Emotional Intelligence, and Researcher’s Organizational Learning whit 0/76, 0/89 reliability, were used for collecting data. Five hypotheses were examined by use of Pearson Correlation Coefficient and Stepwised Multiple Regression. The results showed that there was meaningful relationship between Emotional Intelligence & Organizational Learning among staffs in the study. Results of using multiple regression showed that across 4 indicators of Emotional Intelligence, only relationship management was an appropriate predicator for Organizational Learning.

The purpose of the present study is to assess organizational citizenship behavior among staffs of University of Tehran. The mixed method approach, the triangulation design (Validating Quantitative Data Model), was used in this study. The Statistical population consisted of all 1538 staffs of University of Tehran, of which 126 subjects were selected randomly. The data collection tools included the questionnaire of Podsakoff et al. (1990) and one open-ended question. To analyze the data, quantitative methods (mean, std. deviation, one- sample t-test, pairedsamples t-test, independent-samples t-test, one- way ANOVA, and Scheffe), and qualitative methods (categorizing, classification and organization) were used. The findings showed that current organizational citizenship behavior and its dimensions (conscientiousness, courtesy, sportsmanship, altruism, and civic virtue) are significant at 0.05 level and the desired organizational citizenship behavior and its dimensions are significant at 0.05 levels. There is a significant difference between organizational citizenship behavior and its dimensions in current and desired situation. The findings indicated that women exhibited higher levels of organizational citizenship behavior than men, in terms of schooling. Experts with higher education are more organized in Citizenship Behaviors than ones holding undergraduate degrees. Finally, using viewpoint of experts, individual, job, managerial and organizational solutions were offered for improving their OCB.

The aim of this study was to examine the association ship between the service leadership characteristics of principals and teachers empowerment. The research method was “descriptive”. The statically population of the study was 310 teachers (N=310) from Mahabad High schools from whom a sample of 173 teachers were randomly selected. Two questionnaires were considered as the measuring instruments. In order to collect data, Service Leadership Assessment Instrument including six sub-scales (Love, Humility, Altruism, Vision, Service, and Trust) and Empowerment Inventory were used. The reliability of the Servant Leadership Assessment questionnaire and the Empowerment questionnaire were 86%. And 0.70 respectively based on the Cronbach's Alpha Coefficient. For analyzing the data, Pearson Correlation Coefficient, relative correlation and multivariate regression were used. Results indicated that there was a statistically significant positive and strong association between the principal’s behaviors in line with sub-scales of vision and trust with the teachers empowerment. There was a negative statically significant relationship between service and empowerment. Also, sub-scales were found to predict more than 70 percent of variances in the teachers’ empowerment. The other four sub-scales related to service leadership had no statistically significant association with the teachers’ empowerment when partial correlations of variables were measured.

This research aimed at studying principals’ supervisory belief in Tehran elementary schools through all 19 districts. The population for the study included Tehran elementary school principals among 19 districts, and sample population was 65 subjects, chosen randomly from five elementary schools (districts 3, 5, 10, 13 and 19). Using principal supervisory belief questionnaire, three supervisory approaches were measured: democratic, collaborative and bureaucratic. Findings showed that all three approaches of supervisory beliefs were above mean, collaborative belief with 4.21, democratic belief with 4.20 and the bureaucratic belief with 3.74 mean score. There wasn’t any significant disparity among principal’s supervisory belief systems in terms of gender, experience and education. The findings showed that the belief system of principals is more participatory and collaborative. Therefore, the means of applying this style should be introduced to make schools more effective.

This research is an investigation on the relationship between emotional intelligence and job satisfaction. The research method in this study was correlation descriptive. The population of the research consisted of all the employees of Quchan City. A sample of 108 employees, selected by relative classified sampling, participated in this project. They were asked to answer emotional intelligence questionnaires and job satisfaction questionnaires. Pearson’s correlation coefficient, regression, and ANOVA were applied for data analysis. The results showed that there was a significant positive relationship between emotional intelligence and job satisfaction. The results also revealed that emotional intelligence had a significant and positive correlation with job satisfaction among two factors of Self-regulation and Social skills, but there is not a significant and positive correlation between the Emotional intelligence and the three factors of Self-awareness, Self-stimulation and Empathy with employee job satisfaction. Further, the results of regression test showed that Self-regulation and Social skills had the greatest effect on job satisfaction.

This research was seeking for the relationship between thinking style and transformational leadership among educational administrators. The research then was descriptive and correlation method. Statistical population for the study was all 1027 principals and teachers in Nishaboor from whom 72 principals and 270 vice principals and teachers were selected by simple random sampling method as sample population. Instrument for the study were Strenberg-Wagner's of Thinking Styles Questionnaire (1992), responded by the principals and Bass and Olive's Transformational Leadership Questionnare (1985), responded by teachers and vice principals. The reliability of questionnaires received 0.92 and 0.93 by Chronbach's Alpha. Data was analyzed by use of mean, std. deviation, one- sample t-test, pairedsamples t-test, independent-samples t-test, Pearson Correlation Coefficient. The results showed that school principals received higher scores in judicial style, liberal style, executive style, external style compare to other thinking styles. School principals received high scores in two dimensions of transformational leadership, namely inspirational and individual respects. Yet, there was found no significant relationship between thinking styles and transformational leadership of school principals.