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.
Mansoureh Sharifi Nevisi; Amir Masoud Amir Mazaheri; Zahra Hazrati Someeh
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Purpose: The main purpose of the research is to identify and prioritize individual, social, environmental and cultural characteristics affecting the condition of children in orphanages covered by Tehran's welfare after the age of 18.Methodology: The research method is applied in terms of purpose, and ...
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Purpose: The main purpose of the research is to identify and prioritize individual, social, environmental and cultural characteristics affecting the condition of children in orphanages covered by Tehran's welfare after the age of 18.Methodology: The research method is applied in terms of purpose, and mixed (qualitative and quantitative) in terms of data type. The statistical population includes elites with doctorate degrees and university faculty members with at least 5 years of experience in the welfare organization and with research degrees and participation in related seminars. The sample size was 10 experts who were selected with a purposeful method and according to the principle of theoretical saturation. The data collection tool is semi-structured interview and paired comparison questionnaire. Theoretical coding method (open, central and selective) and fuzzy AHP technique were used to analyze the data.Findings: After open and axial coding, it was determined that several components were obtained for individual, social, environmental and cultural characteristics affecting the condition of children in orphanages covered by Tehran's welfare after the age of 18, and these dimensions are: Environment includes supporting measures and environmental substrates. In the individual dimension, it includes components 1- intelligence 2- individual talents 3- physical condition 4- mental condition. In the social dimension, it includes: 1- Social responsibility 2- Religious norms 3- The vicious cycle of socialization. The cultural dimension includes components 1- accepted cultural norms and 2- lack of culture.Conclusion: Based on the fuzzy AHP technique, the influence of the individual dimension is the first degree of importance, the cultural dimension is the second degree, the environmental dimension is the third degree and the social dimension is the fourth degree.
