Background: Managers have a crucial role on qualitative and quantitative improvement of their outputs, that is, the students. Every organization’s creativity is dependent on the creativity of its managers. Different factors influence managers’ creativity. Ac More
Background: Managers have a crucial role on qualitative and quantitative improvement of their outputs, that is, the students. Every organization’s creativity is dependent on the creativity of its managers. Different factors influence managers’ creativity. According to Sternberg, intelligence, personality and thinking styles effect creativity. Purpose: This research attempted to investigate the relationship between high school principals’ thinking styles and creativity in the city of Khorramabad. Method: The research design is of the correlation characteristic of descriptive researches. The research population included all 145 high school principals in Khorramabad (67 females and 78 males). To determine the sample size the Cochran formula was used. Therefore, 107 principals (48 females and 59 males) were selected as the sample using a relative cluster sampling. To collect data, Sternberg-Wagner’s thinking styles questionnaire and Ran sip’s creativity questionnaire were administered. The content validity was used to determine the validity of the measures and Cranach alpha was used to measure the validity of the questionnaires. The Cranach alpha values for the thinking style questionnaire and creativity questionnaire were 0.90 and 0.92, respectively. Result(s): Results showed that legislative and judicial thinking styles were positively correlated to the principal’s creativity, while the relative between the executive thinking style and principals’ creativity was not significantly meaningful. Of the thinking styles, the judicial style is a suitable predictor of the principals’ creativity. Conclusion: According to the findings, can be concluded that the thinking style, fundamentally role in innovation and depending on the situation, one of these styles, the best results will be achieved.
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The present study seeks to identify the association between self-efficacy and effectiveness of secondary and high school principals. The type of study is applied and its method is descriptive. The population consisted of 483 principals and teachers of Chamestan region. More
The present study seeks to identify the association between self-efficacy and effectiveness of secondary and high school principals. The type of study is applied and its method is descriptive. The population consisted of 483 principals and teachers of Chamestan region. Following Morgan’s Table, a sample of 230 individuals was formed via simple random sampling. For measuring both self-efficacy and effectiveness a researcher-made questionnaire (Shalikar, 1999) with internal consistency of 0.77 using Cronbach’s alpha was employed. To analyze the data, in addition to descriptive statistics such as frequency, percentage, mean, mode and median, inferential statistics including Pearson correlation was utilized. One of the most important findings of the study was that there is a significant and positive correlation between self-efficacy, self-belief, self-regulation, self-measurement and principals’ effectiveness. However, components of self-leadership had no significant association with effectiveness in either level. Also, self-excitement had no significant correlation with effectiveness in high school.
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The purpose of this study was to Identifying the components and indicators of the spiritual leadership development model for the development of spiritual leadership in school principals (Case study: Tehran schools). The research method was quantitative. The stu More
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The purpose of this study was to Identifying the components and indicators of the spiritual leadership development model for the development of spiritual leadership in school principals (Case study: Tehran schools). The research method was quantitative. The study population consisted of all professors, staff, managers and specialists in secondary education in Tehran. The number of samples was selected using Cochran's formula of 369 principals and deputies of secondary education in Tehran. The research tool was a researcher-made questionnaire. The collected data were analyzed by descriptive and inferential methods using SPSS 16 and Smart PLS software. The results showed that ten components are involved in explaining the model for spiritual leadership in the second secondary education principals of Tehran, which are: Individual dimension - love component to altruism, individual dimension - faith component, individual dimension - sincerity component, individual dimension - resurrection component, individual dimension - trust component, organizational dimension - vision component, organizational dimension - organizational commitment component, organizational dimension - Organizational membership component, organizational dimension - performance feedback component, and finally organizational dimension - content literacy (job attractiveness). Determination coefficient and adjusted determination coefficient; Indicates the proper fit of the model.
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