Investigating the Relationship between Managers 'Distributed Leadership Style and Teachers' Attitude toward Organizational Change

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 teacher

2 Associate professor Department of Educational Administration Faculty of Management Kharazmi University

3 Tenured professor of Kharazmi University in Iran President of Iranian Educational Administration Association(IEAA)

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The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between distributed leadership style of managers and the attitude of high school teachers in organizational change in Gonabad city. The research method is descriptive correlational. The statistical population consisted of all high school teachers in high school of Gonabad in the academic year 2015-2015, of which 1070 were selected using the Krejcie and Morgan table of optimum volume of 285 students by proportional stratified sampling. Data were collected using the Ilmoor 20-item Leadership Inventory (2000) and the 18-item Attitude toward Change Questionnaire. Data were collected using the Elmour 20-item Leadership (2000) and the 18-item Organizational Change Attitude Questionnaire (Dunham et al., 1989). Content validity was used to determine the validity of the questionnaire and was approved by experts in this field. The reliability of the questionnaires using Cronbach's alpha coefficient was 0.87, respectively. And 83 /. Evaluated. Data were analyzed using Pearson correlation coefficient and standard multiple regression. The findings showed that distributed leadership status of managers and attitude toward organizational change was higher than the average and hypothetical average and there was a significant relationship between distributed leadership and attitude toward organizational change. It was also found that distributed leadership dimensions had a significant explanation of attitude toward organizational change of teachers (R2 = 0.17).

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  • Receive Date: 10 July 2018
  • Revise Date: 01 August 2019
  • Accept Date: 26 August 2019

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