Social Sciences
maryam ghaderi sheykhi abadi; fakhrossadat Nasiri; Afshin Afzali; mahmoud taajobi
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Purpose: Synergistic leadership style plays an important role in implementing quality standards in schools. The purpose of the current research was to construct and standardize the synergistic leadership questionnaire in the managers of technical and vocational schools.Methodology: The quantitative research ...
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Purpose: Synergistic leadership style plays an important role in implementing quality standards in schools. The purpose of the current research was to construct and standardize the synergistic leadership questionnaire in the managers of technical and vocational schools.Methodology: The quantitative research method was correlation studies. The research population was the teachers of technical and vocational schools in Tehran province in the academic year of 2021-2022. With the proportional stratified random sampling method based on gender and population classes and based on Cochran's formula, a sample 364 teachers were selected. To collect data, the 20-item researcher-made tool of synergistic leadership and the organizational ambidexterity tool Jansen(2006) were used. In order to investigate the factor structure and construct validity of the questionnaire, the techniques of content validity ratio, exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis, and convergent and divergent validity were used, and to investigate the reliability of the questionnaire, Cronbach's alpha method and composite reliability were used by SPSS25 and LISREL10.30 software.Findings: Based on the findings, 4 factors and 20 items were designed and create to measure the synergistic leadership of educational managers of technical and vocational schools. The content validity of the tool(0.7585) was confirmed based on the opinion of experts. In the exploratory factor analysis, four factors of organizational structure, extra-organizational factors, leadership behavior and attitudes, beliefs and values were observed with a special value higher than one, which were able to explain 71% of the variance of synergistic leadership. The results of the confirmatory factor analysis showed that the fit indices of the questionnaire are suitable and desirable and the questionnaire has good validity. Also, based on the optimal explained variance percentage of 63% in the second-order confirmatory factor analysis, the power of the questionnaire in explaining the variance of synergistic leadership was confirmed. Convergent validity(0.6304) and divergent validity(0.794), Cronbach's alpha(0.936) and composite reliability(0.95) of the questionnaire also indicated the appropriate validity and reliability of the synergistic leadership tool.Conclusion: Researchers can use the questionnaire designed to measure synergistic leadership and improve leadership skills in educational managers of technical and vocational schools as a standard tool.
Mahmood Taajobi; Parvaneh Mohammadi; Mohsen Ahmadi
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Purpose: The present research was conducted with the aim of investigating the relationship between talent management and organizational socialization with psychological capital.Methodology: Descriptive research method is correlation type. The statistical population included all primary school teachers ...
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Purpose: The present research was conducted with the aim of investigating the relationship between talent management and organizational socialization with psychological capital.Methodology: Descriptive research method is correlation type. The statistical population included all primary school teachers in Saqqez city in the academic year of 2020-21. Using the random cluster sampling method, 278 teachers were randomly selected for the study. To collect research data, three standard questionnaires of talent management (Cunningham, 2007), organizational sociability (Taormina, 1997) and psychological capital (Luthans, Youssef, Avolio, 2007) were used. Pearson's correlation coefficient and structural equation model were analyzed in Lisrel and SPSS statistical software.Findings: The results showed that the relationship between talent management and psychological capital (0.28) with a T-statistic of 4.29 is positive and significant (P<0.01), as well as the relationship between organizational socialization and psychological capital (0.64) with a t-statistic of 7.36 was positive and significant (P<0.01).Conclusion: According to the findings of the present research, one of the factors affecting psychological capital can be talent management and organizational socialization.
