Social Sciences
Fatemeh Radpour; Behzad Farrokh Seresht; Davoud Kiakojori; Hossein Ali Taghipour
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Purpose: The managers' communication skills are one of the most important factors of continued success in any organization, and for this purpose it is important and necessary to know the managers' personality characteristics to improve their communication skills. Therefore, the aim of this study was ...
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Purpose: The managers' communication skills are one of the most important factors of continued success in any organization, and for this purpose it is important and necessary to know the managers' personality characteristics to improve their communication skills. Therefore, the aim of this study was to designing a model of effective personality dimensions on the level of managers' communication skills.Methodology: This study in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation method was descriptive from type of survey. The research population was managers and assistants of Iran's National Oil Products Distribution Company, which the sample size was determine based on the Krejcie and Morgan table 191 people, but 210 questionnaires were distributed among managers and assistants. The research tools were included the researcher-made questionnaire of managers' personality dimensions (35 questions) and the questionnaire of managers' communication skills (18 questions). Data were analyzed with exploratory factor analysis and structural equation modeling methods in SPSS and Amos software.Findings: The findings showed that 10 questionnaires were excluded from the analysis due to incompleteness and the analysis was done for 200 people. The findings of the exploratory factor analysis showed that 9 questions were removed from the questionnaire of managers' personality dimensions due to low factor loading, and the final form had 26 questions in 6 components of honesty, extroversion, conscientiousness, flexibility, adaptability and responsibility and these six components could explain 80.37% of the total variance. Also, the factor loading of all six components was higher than 0.70, the average variance extracted of all was higher than 0.50, and the reliability of Cronbach's alpha and combination of all was higher than 0.70. In addition, the model of effective personality dimensions on the level of managers' communication skills had a good fit, and in the mentioned model, all six components of honesty, extroversion, conscientiousness, flexibility, adaptability and responsibility had a direct and significant effect on the managers' communication skills (P<0.001).Conclusion: The results of this study indicated the impact of all six components of honesty, extroversion, conscientiousness, flexibility, adaptability and responsibility on the managers' communication skills. Therefore, in order to improve the managers' communication skills it is possible to provide the basis for increasing and promoting the managers' personality dimensions through the improvement of working conditions and training workshops.
Narges Shariatmadari; Alaedin Etemad Ahari; Asghar Sharifi
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Purpose: The aim of this research was designing of justice-oriented leadership model in the management of primary schools of Tehran city with a structural equation modeling approach. Methodology: This study in terms of purpose was applied and In terms of implementation method was cross-sectional from ...
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Purpose: The aim of this research was designing of justice-oriented leadership model in the management of primary schools of Tehran city with a structural equation modeling approach. Methodology: This study in terms of purpose was applied and In terms of implementation method was cross-sectional from type of quantitative. The research population was the primary school managers of Tehran city in the 2019-20 academic years with number of 1419 people, which the sample size based on the Cochran's formula was calculated 302 people who were selected by step stratified sampling method with respect to the volume ratio of areas. To collect data were used from researcher-made questionnaire of justice-oriented leadership with 63-item, which the content validity was confirmed by experts opinion and the construct validity was confirmed by exploratory factor analysis and its reliability was confirmed by Cronbach's alpha and combined methods. Data were analyzed by exploratory factor analysis and structural equation modeling in SPSS and PLS software. Findings: The results of exploratory factor analysis showed that justice-oriented leadership has six dimensions of causal conditions (with two components of organizational factors and attitudinal factors), central phenomenon of justice-oriented leadership (with four components of behavioral patterns and moral characteristics, support through two-way communication, strengthening moral behavior and decision making), strategies and actions (with two components of achievement of reward through performance and achievement of goals through reward), intervening conditions (with three components of managers differences, staff differences and managers changes), underlying conditions (with two components of factors encouraging fair behavior and factors threatening fair behavior) and consequences (with three components of school-related outcomes, staff-related outcomes and managers-related outcomes). Also, the results of structural equation modeling showed that the justice-oriented leadership model had a good fit and the components of each dimensions on their respective dimensions and all dimensions on justice-oriented leadership had a significant effect (p < 0.05). Conclusion: According to the findings, planning is essential to use the justice-oriented leadership model to improve school management. As a result, officials and planners can use the justice-oriented leadership model to improve the performance of managers and hold in-service courses for them in the form of workshops.
Farzaneh Soltangholi; Mohammad Reza Ardalan; Jamal Abdolmaleki
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Purpose: The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of principals' ethical leadership on organizational health mediated by organizational justice in schools. Methodology: The study method was descriptive and correlational studies. The study population was all 339 secondary school teachers ...
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Purpose: The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of principals' ethical leadership on organizational health mediated by organizational justice in schools. Methodology: The study method was descriptive and correlational studies. The study population was all 339 secondary school teachers in Qorveh city in 2020. From this population, based on Morgan table, a sample of 181 people was selected by simple random sampling method. Data were collected using the Ethics Leadership Questionnaire by Brown et al (2005), the Morman and Niehoff (1993) Organizational Justice Questionnaire, and the Hui and Fieldman (1996) Organizational Health Questionnaire. In the present study, Cronbach's alpha values were Ethical Leadership Questionnaire (0.89), Organizational Justice (0.92) and Organizational Health (0.90). GFI values were confirmatory factor analysis of Ethical Leadership Questionnaire (0.92), Organizational Justice (0.93) and Organizational Health (0.92). Structural equation modeling test using LISREL10.30 software was used to analyze the data. Findings: Ethical leadership, principals had an effect (0.61) with a significant amount (7.61) on the organizational health of schools and an effect (0.62) with a significant amount (6.79) on organizational justice. Organizational justice had an effect (0.27) with a significant amount (3.63) on the organizational health of schools. Ethical leadership Principals due to organizational justice had an indirect effect (0.167) with a significant amount (3.22) on the organizational health of schools. Conclusion: According to the research findings, the moral leadership of principals and organizational justice has a positive and significant relationship with the organizational health of schools.
Sepideh Porsesh; Alireza Ghasemizad; Pari Mashayekh
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Purpose: the present study was conducted with the aim of identifying the professional development components of primary education teachers and managers with using themes analysis method. Methodology: This study in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation method was qualitative. The ...
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Purpose: the present study was conducted with the aim of identifying the professional development components of primary education teachers and managers with using themes analysis method. Methodology: This study in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation method was qualitative. The research population was printed documents and texts about the teachers and managers' professions development in scientific databases between the 2000-2019 years, which according to the inclusion criteria were selected 52 cases as a sample by purposive sampling method. Data after collected by take noting method were analyzed with using open, axial and selective coding by themes analysis method in MAXQDA software. Findings: The findings showed that the professional development of primary education teachers and managers based on the fundamental transformation document had 206 basic themes, 53 organizing themes and 16 comprehensive themes included of teachers' characteristics, teachers' motivation, leadership program, teachers' group, educational group, specialist-professional, professional development, teachers' issues and problems, school factors, environmental-educational conditions, environmental-macro conditions, teachers' involvement in professional activities, guidance, networking, educational strategies and individual consequences. Also, the global themes of professional development of primary education teachers and managers were included of 20 basic themes, 8 organizing themes and 1 comprehensive themes including global components and eight organizing themes of guidance, networking, leadership, specialist-professional, educational group, leaders group, educational strategies and consequences. Conclusion: According to the identified themes, planning is essential for the professional development of primary education teachers and managers, which for this purpose it is possible to provide the conditions for improving themes.
