Investigating the effect of school principals' self-concept on organizational learning mediated by professional ethics

Document Type : Research Paper

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Department of Educational Management and Planning, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

The aim of this study was to identify the effect of school principals' self-concept on organizational learning mediated by professional ethics. The research method is descriptive-correlation and its analysis method is structural equation modeling. The statistical population includes all school principals in District 1 of the Ray city with 154 people using Cochran sampling formula and stratified sampling method. 111 people have been studied with a proportional allocation. To collect data, the modified organizational learning questionnaires of Neife et al. (1990), Professional Ethics of Hosseini (1393) and Carl Rogers Self-Concept (1957) have been used.  The reliability of these tools using Cronbach's alpha coefficient is 0.92, 0.90 and 0.86, respectively. The results of one-sample t-test showed that the self-concept of school principals, organizational learning and their professional ethics is higher than the theoretical average. Also, the results of structural equation modeling indicated that respect as one of the components of professional ethics had the ability to predict organizational learning. Structural equation modeling also showed that self-concept had an effect on professional ethics (γ = 0.30) and organizational learning (γ = 0.26). But professional ethics have not affected organizational learning. Also, self-concept has not indirectly affected organizational learning through professional ethics.

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