The mediating role of organizational resilience in the relationship between the principals' behavioral style and the positive performance of the teaching staff of the junior high school

Subject Areas : Education

tina Baba ahmadi mehdi pour ¹ , Abbas Gholtash ² , majed ghobadi ³

1 - Graduate of Educational Management, Electronic Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
2 - Department of Educational Sciences, Marvdasht Branch, Islamic Azad University, Marvdasht, Iran.
3 - Department of Educational Sciences, Islamic Azad University, Electronic Branch, Tehran, Iran.

Received: 2022-05-02 Accepted : 2022-08-26 Published : 2022-08-23

Keywords: Behavior style of school principals, positive performance of educational staff, Organizational Resilience,

Abstract :

Introduction: The success of organizations and managers is always dependent on a number of key factors and identifying and strengthening such factors will lead to the success of organizations more than ever. The aim of this study was to explain the relationship between high school principals' behavioral style and the positive performance of teaching staff with regard to the mediating role of organizational resilience. research methodology: The present research is practical in terms of its purpose, and based on the method, it is a descriptive research of the correlation type. The statistical population was the teaching staff of the junior high schools of District 3 of Ahvaz city, whose number is 254 people. The sample size was calculated based on Cochran's formula as of 153 people. The sampling method was convenience random sampling. The research instruments were Mohammadi and Sharafi Behavioral Styles Questionnaire (2014), Luthans et al. (2007) Positive Performance Questionnaire and Connor & Davidson (2003) Resilience Questionnaire. Due to the standardization of research tools and confirmation of validy and reliability in previous researches, in this research, content validity has been approved by supervisors and advisors and using Cronbach's alpha reliability was obtained as 0.839, 0.729 and 0.874, respectively. Pearson's correlation coefficient was used to analyze the data, and path analysis test (structural equations) was used to investigate the mediator role (Sobel test). Findings: The results showed that there is a positive and significant relationship between principals' behavioral styles and positive performance of teaching staff and organizational resilience also has a mediating role in this regard. Conclusion: It seems that in order to improve the performance of teaching staff, it is necessary for principals to use different behavioral styles.  

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