فصلنامه رهبری و مدیریت آموزشی
سال ششم شماره 3 (پاییز 1391)

This study investigated the effect of training management quality improvement on the promotional motivation of education managers. The research method employed quasi – experimental pretest – post test with a control group. The sample included 40 secondary school principals in Ahwaz who were selected randomly and were divided into an experimental and a control group. Both groups were tested by a questionnaire on self-description chizli,s. The experimental group was the dependent variable (training quality management characteristics) for 12 week, each week on 45- minute session. A posttest was administered to both groups. One way Covariance was employed to analyze the data at a significant level set at p≤0.05. The results revealed that instruction management quality improvement had positive effect on the Promotional Motivation of Mangers.

The purpose of this research was to investigate the relationship between emotional intelligence and Job Satisfaction with organizational commitment among teachers who work in secondary schools of Yazd city in Iran. Research methodology was descriptive - survey-correlation. The number of the secondary teachers in Yazd city was 772. The sample included 260 teachers that were selected by classified proportionate sampling method using Morgan, s table sample size. Emotional intelligence, job satisfaction and commitment questionnaires were used as research instruments. Reliability of the questionnaires was computed by cronbach alpha coefficient which was 0.83, 0.79 and 0.73 for emotional intelligence, organizational commitment and job satisfaction respectively. Correlation coefficient test, regression analysis, ANOVA and T test were used for data analysis. The results showed that there was a significant relationship between job satisfactions of secondary school teachers and the organizational commitment. Furthermore, Job Satisfaction can forecast organizational commitment. Also there was a significant relationship between emotional intelligence, organizational commitment and job satisfaction among male and female teachers.

The purpose of this article is to study parent satisfaction of middle schools performance in Tehran city. So among student parent of the same schools, chosed 670 person by cluster random sampling. The research method was «survey and correlation research» in term of data collecting method. Reviewing literature identified five component with different indicators about school performance. Then collecting data via questionnaire and analyzing its by descriptive and inferential statistics, the results is showed: parents are satisfied of middle schools performance. Theire satisfaction in view of arrangement is including: Student achievement, school management policy, personel and teachers performance, improvement of student behaviour and instructional, physical, and welfare facilities. So logistic regression is showed among demographic variables, the only variable forecasting parents satisfaction is "school degree". So that its increasing to cause decreasing of satisfaction and contrary its decreasing to cause increasing of satisfaction.

The objective of the research was to Predict the rate of organizational commitment of primary school teachers In Semnan city based on their anthropological specifications the security level and job stress. The methodology of the Study is a descriptive method to show the correlations between the variables. The statistical community is the total elementary school teachers In Semnan in the year 2009-2010 which was 511.The sampling according to Morgan table ware is 249 teachers. They were selected through the classifications sampling method. Three questionnaires were used to assess the variables of the research namely job security level, job stress (made by researcher), and questionnaire of organizational commitment made by Meyer and Allen (1975). The reliability of the questionnaires was 0/92 and 0/85 and 0/93, respectively. To analyze the data the average standard deviation the Person correlation, coefficient and multi regression analysis were utilized. The finding of the study indicate that Attitude toward the work and Emotional school environment were meaningful hypotheses for organizational commitment at school.

The research was carried out to study the correlation between manager's emotional intelligence and conflict management styles in universities. The research method of the study was descriptive (correlation). The subjects included 115 Department managers who worked in Islamic Azad Universities in the 10th zone of Iran. According to "Morgan Table", 92 Samples were chosen by random for the sampling method. The instruments used in the study were 2 standard Questionnaires namely; the assessment manager's emotional intelligence (Bar & others, 1997) containing 25 items in five scales, and the styles of conflict management Questionnaire (Robins, 1994) containing 30 items in five scales. The data were analyzed by descriptive and inferential statistics method through SPSS. Findings from this study indicate that, there is a significant correlation between manager's emotional intelligence dimensions and styles of conflict management among Islamic Azad universities in the 10th zone of Iran. The findings also indicate that 82.2% of conflict management variance depends on manager's emotional intelligence.

This study investigated the structural model of distributed leadership style on academic achievement mediated by teacher academic optimism, teacher job satisfaction, and teacher commitment. For the purposes of this study, a sample of 406 teachers from twenty school districts in Tehran, were selected. Teachers participating in this study responded to the questionnaire survey and the academic achievement of students were measured based on their scores in math and science courses. The latent variable measurement model was confirmed by the confirmatory factor analysis. The effect of leadership style and mediating variables on proposed model and final model were analyzed. The findings of the study revealed that the proposed model was relatively in good fit but one of the paths was not significant. With the modified model and the final model, all the direct and indirect impacts were significant. The data showed a good fit with this general model, and 0.11 of the variance academic achievement was explained. The results of this study reveal the importance of the indirect effect of distributed leadership style and the effect of mediating variables.

The purpose of present research is to study the effectiveness of approved programs of creativity education on professional competence’s teachers. The method of research is quasi-experimental and design is pre-test, post-test by control group. Population of this research were all middle school teachers (N= 133) and all middle school students (N=1853). And the sample included 30 teachers selected purposeful sampling method that was involved in two groups: experimental and control. The researcher made questionnaire in this research use as a tool. That prepared in three aspects of knowledge (include 13 question), attitude (include 27 question) and skill (include 35 question). Reliability of questionnaire was study with utilization of Cronbach's alpha and was calculate for three aspects of knowledge, attitude and skill: 0/75, 0/85 and 0/82. In order to analysis data, one way covariance method (MANCOVA and t test) is use. Theory analysis shows that the programs of the creativity education have effects on professional competence’s teachers. Theory analysis shows that the programs of the creativity education have effects on improvement of professional competence’s teachers. On the other hand using the creativity education methods of students can improve the knowledge, attitude and teacher's teaching skill. Also, this result shows that the effectiveness of programs of the creativity education on professional competences among the male and female teachers is different just in teaching skill variable.

This study aims at investigating the conflict management styles of guidance school teachers in encounter with student's aggression. For this purpose, the sample included 365 teachers and 385 students that were selected randomly by multi-stage cluster sampling. The subjects were chosen among 7728 guidance teachers and 150985 students by Cochran formula. The researcher designed two questionnaires based on Robbins questionnaire and were used as the research instrument. In order to evaluate the questionnaires reliability Cronbach's alpha method was employed. The reliability coefficient for teachers questionnaire was α=0.83, and the reliability coefficient for students questionnaire was α=0.79 respectively. The validity of both questionnaires was considered as a content validity and was investigated by collecting specialist's point of view. The result was obtained based on descriptive and inferential statistics. Results showed that the major conflict management style of teachers in relation with student's aggression was collaboration or confronting style. The compromise style was in second stage, the toleration and avoidance styles were in third stage, and finally domination style was in fourth and last stage.