Social Sciences
Moosa Moghadas; Parivash Jafari; Mohammad Noor Rahmani; Nader Gholi Ghoorchian
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Purpose: Positive leadership among school principals can create a competitive advantage for the education system. As a result, the current research was conducted with the aim of presenting a model for promoting positive leadership among school principals.Methodology: This study in terms of purpose was ...
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Purpose: Positive leadership among school principals can create a competitive advantage for the education system. As a result, the current research was conducted with the aim of presenting a model for promoting positive leadership among school principals.Methodology: This study in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation method was descriptive from survey type. The statistical population of this study was all 950 school principals in Fars province, which based on Cochran's formula 365 principals by stratified random sampling method were selected as a sample. The data were collected with a demographic information form and a researcher-made questionnaire for promoting positive leadership among school principals (30 items), which its validity and reliability of were assessed as suitable, and for their analysis were used from exploratory factor analysis and structural equation modeling methods in SPSS and AMOS software.Findings: The findings showed that promoting positive leadership among school principals had 30 items in 3 dimensions of individual (11 items), organizational (13 items) and environmental (6 items); So that the factor loading of all 30 items and all dimensions was higher than 0.40, their average extracted variance was higher than 0.50, and their Cronbach's alpha and combination were higher than 0.70. Also, the fit indices of the promoting positive leadership model among school principals indicated the acceptable fit of the mentioned model and this model had a direct significant effect on all three dimensions of individual, organizational and environmental (P<0.001).Conclusion: According to the results of this study, educational systems and schools in order to achieve goals and achieve competitive advantage can provide the basis for improving individual, organizational and environmental of positive leadership among school principals through the items of each of them.
Mohammad Ali Bayati; Saeed Sayadi; Ebrahim Givaki; Sanjar Salajeghe; Amin Nikpour
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Purpose: Organizations, as intermediate links between people and society, are important and fundamental components of today's human social body, which need people and society to survive and continue their activities. In the traditional perspective, the focus of the governance makers is based on maximizing ...
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Purpose: Organizations, as intermediate links between people and society, are important and fundamental components of today's human social body, which need people and society to survive and continue their activities. In the traditional perspective, the focus of the governance makers is based on maximizing the profit of the shareholders, and for this purpose, they seek to establish laws to structure the relations between the board of directors, shareholders and managers and to resolve possible conflicts between them, but in the new perspective, the perspective goes further and is based on It is necessary to consider the consequences of the organization's governance decisions in all stakeholders and all economic, social and environmental dimensions. Social responsibility is a relatively new management paradigm that emphasizes creating a responsible and committed business. Therefore, the present study was conducted with the aim of presenting a social responsibility model with using the meta-combined method.Methodology: This study in terms of time was cross-sectional, in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation method was qualitative with using the meta-combination method. The research population was resources related to social responsibility in the last 20 years, which from among 200 available articles according to the desired criteria and the 3 stages of refinement, number of 42 articles were selected as a sample by purposive method. Data were collected by reviewing documents and taking notes from articles, which the reliability of the findings was obtained using the agreement coefficient between the two coders 0.86 and finally, the data were analyzed by themes analysis method in MAXQDA-10 software.Findings: Findings of the present study showed that social responsibility had 65 indicators, 41 categories and 7 dimensions, that were included economic (6 categories), ethical (8 categories), environmental (8 categories), staff (6 categories), regulatory institutions (5 categories). society (5 categories) and governing institutions (3 categories). Finally, the social responsibility model with using the meta-combined method was designed.Conclusion: The results of the present study indicated the 7 dimensions of economic, ethical, environmental, staff, regulatory institutions, society and governing institutions for the social responsibility model. Organizational officials and managers with the help of the identified dimensions in the present study can provide the basis for improving social responsibility in their organization.
