Social Sciences
Fatemeh Radpour; Behzad Farrokh Seresht; Davoud Kiakojori; Hossein Ali Taghipour
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Purpose: The managers' communication skills are one of the most important factors of continued success in any organization, and for this purpose it is important and necessary to know the managers' personality characteristics to improve their communication skills. Therefore, the aim of this study was ...
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Purpose: The managers' communication skills are one of the most important factors of continued success in any organization, and for this purpose it is important and necessary to know the managers' personality characteristics to improve their communication skills. Therefore, the aim of this study was to designing a model of effective personality dimensions on the level of managers' communication skills.Methodology: This study in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation method was descriptive from type of survey. The research population was managers and assistants of Iran's National Oil Products Distribution Company, which the sample size was determine based on the Krejcie and Morgan table 191 people, but 210 questionnaires were distributed among managers and assistants. The research tools were included the researcher-made questionnaire of managers' personality dimensions (35 questions) and the questionnaire of managers' communication skills (18 questions). Data were analyzed with exploratory factor analysis and structural equation modeling methods in SPSS and Amos software.Findings: The findings showed that 10 questionnaires were excluded from the analysis due to incompleteness and the analysis was done for 200 people. The findings of the exploratory factor analysis showed that 9 questions were removed from the questionnaire of managers' personality dimensions due to low factor loading, and the final form had 26 questions in 6 components of honesty, extroversion, conscientiousness, flexibility, adaptability and responsibility and these six components could explain 80.37% of the total variance. Also, the factor loading of all six components was higher than 0.70, the average variance extracted of all was higher than 0.50, and the reliability of Cronbach's alpha and combination of all was higher than 0.70. In addition, the model of effective personality dimensions on the level of managers' communication skills had a good fit, and in the mentioned model, all six components of honesty, extroversion, conscientiousness, flexibility, adaptability and responsibility had a direct and significant effect on the managers' communication skills (P<0.001).Conclusion: The results of this study indicated the impact of all six components of honesty, extroversion, conscientiousness, flexibility, adaptability and responsibility on the managers' communication skills. Therefore, in order to improve the managers' communication skills it is possible to provide the basis for increasing and promoting the managers' personality dimensions through the improvement of working conditions and training workshops.
Social Sciences
Moosa Moghadas; Parivash Jafari; Mohammad Noor Rahmani; Nader Gholi Ghoorchian
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Purpose: Positive leadership among school principals can create a competitive advantage for the education system. As a result, the current research was conducted with the aim of presenting a model for promoting positive leadership among school principals.Methodology: This study in terms of purpose was ...
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Purpose: Positive leadership among school principals can create a competitive advantage for the education system. As a result, the current research was conducted with the aim of presenting a model for promoting positive leadership among school principals.Methodology: This study in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation method was descriptive from survey type. The statistical population of this study was all 950 school principals in Fars province, which based on Cochran's formula 365 principals by stratified random sampling method were selected as a sample. The data were collected with a demographic information form and a researcher-made questionnaire for promoting positive leadership among school principals (30 items), which its validity and reliability of were assessed as suitable, and for their analysis were used from exploratory factor analysis and structural equation modeling methods in SPSS and AMOS software.Findings: The findings showed that promoting positive leadership among school principals had 30 items in 3 dimensions of individual (11 items), organizational (13 items) and environmental (6 items); So that the factor loading of all 30 items and all dimensions was higher than 0.40, their average extracted variance was higher than 0.50, and their Cronbach's alpha and combination were higher than 0.70. Also, the fit indices of the promoting positive leadership model among school principals indicated the acceptable fit of the mentioned model and this model had a direct significant effect on all three dimensions of individual, organizational and environmental (P<0.001).Conclusion: According to the results of this study, educational systems and schools in order to achieve goals and achieve competitive advantage can provide the basis for improving individual, organizational and environmental of positive leadership among school principals through the items of each of them.
Masoumeh Akbari; Shahla Farhadi Varmazabadi; Mahmoud Meidani; Azadeh Barzgaran; Shahin Abdulmaleki
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Purpose: Investigating the educational needs of different groups always helps to better understand the current situation and to have a good perspective on the future. Therefore, the purpose of this research was studying the educational needs of elementary school principals based on the professional competencies.Methodology: ...
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Purpose: Investigating the educational needs of different groups always helps to better understand the current situation and to have a good perspective on the future. Therefore, the purpose of this research was studying the educational needs of elementary school principals based on the professional competencies.Methodology: This research in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of purpose implementation method was descriptive from type of survey. The research population was public elementary school principals of Alborz province with number 584 people (381 women and 203 men) in the 2017-18 academic years. The research sample was 231 managers who were selected by multi -stage cluster sampling method. The research tool was educational needs of principals based on professional competencies with 89 items that designed by the present study researchers. For data analysis were used from exploratory factor analysis and chi-square test in SPSS-19 software.Findings: The findings showed that for the educational needs of elementary school principals based on the professional competencies were identified 8 factors of management expertise, knowledge of teacher skills, perceptive-human skills, artistic skills, moral-social skills, technical skills, motivational skills and knowledge of physical space standards of schools and the factor loading of all items was higher than 0.40. Also, the factor load of all factors was higher than 0.50, the average variance extracted of all factors was higher than 0.60, and the reliability of all factors with using Cronbach's alpha and combined methods was higher than 0.80, and the reliability of the whole tool with using Cronbach's alpha method was estimated 0.91. In addition, according to the elementary school principals there was a significant difference between the amount of observed value and the amount of expected value in all 8 identified needs (management expertise, knowledge of teacher skills, perceptive-human skills, artistic skills, moral-social skills, technical skills, motivational skills and knowledge of physical space standards of schools) (P
Yadolah Fazli; Omid Mehni; Ayoub Feyzi; Bijan Abdollahi
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Purpose: The main purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between managers' communication skills and the effectiveness of classroom management.Methodology: The method of the present study was descriptive-correlation. The statistical population included 28 principals and 976 teachers ...
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Purpose: The main purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between managers' communication skills and the effectiveness of classroom management.Methodology: The method of the present study was descriptive-correlation. The statistical population included 28 principals and 976 teachers of secondary schools in Amol city. Stratified random sampling method was used to select the statistical sample. Based on this, 24 managers and 278 secretaries were selected as the statistical sample of the study. Data collection tools were Barton Communication Skills Questionnaire (1990) and Imarohikman Classroom Management Effectiveness Questionnaire (1991). The communication skills questionnaire had 18 items with three components "verbal skills, listening skills and feedback skills". The Classroom Management Effectiveness Questionnaire also consisted of 35 questions that measured the three components of "establishing discipline in the classroom, the effectiveness of parental education, and the effectiveness of the teacher's personal training." The validity of the questionnaires was confirmed using face and content validity methods. The reliability of the questionnaires was also reported using the appropriate Cronbach's alpha method. In order to analyze the data, Pearson correlation coefficient test and path analysis test were used.Findings: The results showed that there is not a significant relationship between the communication skills of managers and their components with the component of classroom discipline, but the total score of total communication skills of managers and its components with the other overall score of the classroom management and the components of the effectiveness of parent education And there is a positive and meaningful relationship between the effectiveness of teacher training. The results of path analysis indicate that the effect of verbal skills on classroom discipline is irrelevant and has a significant effect on the effectiveness of parental education and the effectiveness of teacher education. Hearing skills can also explain the effectiveness of parental training and the effectiveness of teacher training in a meaningful way and the classroom discipline is unreasonably explained. Finally, feedback skills can effectively explain the effectiveness of parental education and the effectiveness of teacher training in a meaningful way and the classroom discipline is unreasonably explained.Conclusion: Based on the research findings, it can be concluded that strengthening the communication skills of principals can be effective in enriching verbal and non-verbal communication with students' parents and also helping teachers in the quality of classroom management.
Elham Mohebbi Otaghvari; Amir Hossein Mohammad Davoodi; Gholamreza Sharifi Rad
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Purpose: The present study was conducted with the aim of providing and validating cultural leadership assessment tools in school principals in Qom province.Methodology: This study in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation method was descriptive-correlational. The population of this ...
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Purpose: The present study was conducted with the aim of providing and validating cultural leadership assessment tools in school principals in Qom province.Methodology: This study in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation method was descriptive-correlational. The population of this research was the schools principals of Qom province in the 2019-20 academic years, which their number was 944 people. The sample size based on Cochran's formula was estimated to be 274 people, which due to the possible losses number of 300 people were selected by simple random sampling method as a sample, but due to 10 missing questionnaires the analyzes were performed for 290 people. For cultural leadership designed a 129-item researcher-made questionnaire with a 5-point Likert scale and were examined its psychometric indices. The content validity of the questionnaire was investigated by experts and the construct validity of the instrument was investigated by exploratory factor analysis and its reliability was investigated by Cronbach's alpha in SPSS-25 software.Findings: The results showed that the content validity of the instrument was confirmed with the opinion of experts and reviewing the structure validity indicated that 11 items were removed from the tool due to factor loading less than 0.3 and the final tool had 118 items. The cultural leadership assessment questionnaire in school principals had 25 factors that the factor load and convergent validity of all factors were higher than 0.5 and the reliability of all of them and total of tolls by Cronbach's alpha method was higher than 0.70.Conclusion: The cultural leadership assessment questionnaire in school principals with 25 factors had appropriate psychometric indices. Therefore, education officials and planners can use this tool to select principals and based on it select capable principals.
Narges Shariatmadari; Alaedin Etemad Ahari; Asghar Sharifi
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Purpose: The aim of this research was designing of justice-oriented leadership model in the management of primary schools of Tehran city with a structural equation modeling approach. Methodology: This study in terms of purpose was applied and In terms of implementation method was cross-sectional from ...
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Purpose: The aim of this research was designing of justice-oriented leadership model in the management of primary schools of Tehran city with a structural equation modeling approach. Methodology: This study in terms of purpose was applied and In terms of implementation method was cross-sectional from type of quantitative. The research population was the primary school managers of Tehran city in the 2019-20 academic years with number of 1419 people, which the sample size based on the Cochran's formula was calculated 302 people who were selected by step stratified sampling method with respect to the volume ratio of areas. To collect data were used from researcher-made questionnaire of justice-oriented leadership with 63-item, which the content validity was confirmed by experts opinion and the construct validity was confirmed by exploratory factor analysis and its reliability was confirmed by Cronbach's alpha and combined methods. Data were analyzed by exploratory factor analysis and structural equation modeling in SPSS and PLS software. Findings: The results of exploratory factor analysis showed that justice-oriented leadership has six dimensions of causal conditions (with two components of organizational factors and attitudinal factors), central phenomenon of justice-oriented leadership (with four components of behavioral patterns and moral characteristics, support through two-way communication, strengthening moral behavior and decision making), strategies and actions (with two components of achievement of reward through performance and achievement of goals through reward), intervening conditions (with three components of managers differences, staff differences and managers changes), underlying conditions (with two components of factors encouraging fair behavior and factors threatening fair behavior) and consequences (with three components of school-related outcomes, staff-related outcomes and managers-related outcomes). Also, the results of structural equation modeling showed that the justice-oriented leadership model had a good fit and the components of each dimensions on their respective dimensions and all dimensions on justice-oriented leadership had a significant effect (p < 0.05). Conclusion: According to the findings, planning is essential to use the justice-oriented leadership model to improve school management. As a result, officials and planners can use the justice-oriented leadership model to improve the performance of managers and hold in-service courses for them in the form of workshops.
Farzaneh Soltangholi; Mohammad Reza Ardalan; Jamal Abdolmaleki
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Purpose: The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of principals' ethical leadership on organizational health mediated by organizational justice in schools. Methodology: The study method was descriptive and correlational studies. The study population was all 339 secondary school teachers ...
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Purpose: The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of principals' ethical leadership on organizational health mediated by organizational justice in schools. Methodology: The study method was descriptive and correlational studies. The study population was all 339 secondary school teachers in Qorveh city in 2020. From this population, based on Morgan table, a sample of 181 people was selected by simple random sampling method. Data were collected using the Ethics Leadership Questionnaire by Brown et al (2005), the Morman and Niehoff (1993) Organizational Justice Questionnaire, and the Hui and Fieldman (1996) Organizational Health Questionnaire. In the present study, Cronbach's alpha values were Ethical Leadership Questionnaire (0.89), Organizational Justice (0.92) and Organizational Health (0.90). GFI values were confirmatory factor analysis of Ethical Leadership Questionnaire (0.92), Organizational Justice (0.93) and Organizational Health (0.92). Structural equation modeling test using LISREL10.30 software was used to analyze the data. Findings: Ethical leadership, principals had an effect (0.61) with a significant amount (7.61) on the organizational health of schools and an effect (0.62) with a significant amount (6.79) on organizational justice. Organizational justice had an effect (0.27) with a significant amount (3.63) on the organizational health of schools. Ethical leadership Principals due to organizational justice had an indirect effect (0.167) with a significant amount (3.22) on the organizational health of schools. Conclusion: According to the research findings, the moral leadership of principals and organizational justice has a positive and significant relationship with the organizational health of schools.
Sepideh Porsesh; Alireza Ghasemizad; Pari Mashayekh
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Purpose: the present study was conducted with the aim of identifying the professional development components of primary education teachers and managers with using themes analysis method. Methodology: This study in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation method was qualitative. The ...
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Purpose: the present study was conducted with the aim of identifying the professional development components of primary education teachers and managers with using themes analysis method. Methodology: This study in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation method was qualitative. The research population was printed documents and texts about the teachers and managers' professions development in scientific databases between the 2000-2019 years, which according to the inclusion criteria were selected 52 cases as a sample by purposive sampling method. Data after collected by take noting method were analyzed with using open, axial and selective coding by themes analysis method in MAXQDA software. Findings: The findings showed that the professional development of primary education teachers and managers based on the fundamental transformation document had 206 basic themes, 53 organizing themes and 16 comprehensive themes included of teachers' characteristics, teachers' motivation, leadership program, teachers' group, educational group, specialist-professional, professional development, teachers' issues and problems, school factors, environmental-educational conditions, environmental-macro conditions, teachers' involvement in professional activities, guidance, networking, educational strategies and individual consequences. Also, the global themes of professional development of primary education teachers and managers were included of 20 basic themes, 8 organizing themes and 1 comprehensive themes including global components and eight organizing themes of guidance, networking, leadership, specialist-professional, educational group, leaders group, educational strategies and consequences. Conclusion: According to the identified themes, planning is essential for the professional development of primary education teachers and managers, which for this purpose it is possible to provide the conditions for improving themes.
Sakine Rezaie Siroos; Mohammad Naghi Imani; Asghar Sharifi
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Purpose: The present study aimed to provide a model for predicting return on investment in training and improvement of human resources based on the components of organizational culture and professional competence. Methodology: The research method was applied in terms of purpose and (quantitative) in ...
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Purpose: The present study aimed to provide a model for predicting return on investment in training and improvement of human resources based on the components of organizational culture and professional competence. Methodology: The research method was applied in terms of purpose and (quantitative) in terms of data type. The statistical population included the mayors of Tehran, who were selected using Cochran’s formula and stratified random sampling, 315 people. Data collection was done by two methods: documentary and field (standard and researcher-made questionnaire). In the present study, in order to determine the validity of the questionnaire, apparent, content and structural validity were used, and to determine the reliability, Cronbach’s alpha and combined reliability were used, which were all confirmed. To analyze the data, structural equation modeling tests using SMAR PLS software and one-group t-test were used. Result: According to the findings of organizational culture, research and professional competence for return on investment in education and human resource creation of Tehran Municipality is effective. Conclusion: The results showed that the components of organizational culture, professional competence, as predictors of return on investment in education and improvement
Mohammad Tarzi; Kourosh Parsa Moein; Soghra Afkaneh
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Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify the effects of demographic characteristics, educational program. support of managers on effectiveness of in-service training courses for employees of Welfare Workers Bank. Method: The research method was, fundamental-applied in terms of purpose; Depending ...
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Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify the effects of demographic characteristics, educational program. support of managers on effectiveness of in-service training courses for employees of Welfare Workers Bank. Method: The research method was, fundamental-applied in terms of purpose; Depending on the type of data, it was quantitative study. The statistical population of the study included all employees of the Welfare Bank of Iran, (9794 people). In this study, using cluster and stratified sampling method and calculating the sample size in studies with factor analysis, 491 people were selected as subjects. The data collection method was a researcher-made questionnaire. In order to determine the validity of the questionnaire, face, content and structural validity were used and Cronbach's alpha coefficient and combined reliability were used to assess the reliability, all of which were confirmed. Results: The findings of the study showed that demographic characteristics, educational program. support of managers has significant effects on effectiveness of in-service training courses for employees of Welfare Workers Bank. Conclusion: According to the findings of the study, the results of the study indicate that in order to evaluate the effectiveness of in-service staff at Refah Bank, special attention should be paid to various individual, ducational and supportive components.
