JOURNAL OF SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION
Year:2016 | Volume:4 | Issue:2|Papers Count:9

The goal of this research was to design the pattern of osveh educational leader in education and training system and to assess Tehran school administrators based on this pattern. The methodology of the research was a mixed sequential exploratory of the instrument developing type using multiple case study in which the potential participants involve three groups of exemplary school leaders, Tehran seminary leaders, and school administrative and educational staff (focus groups) selected through purposive sampling and criteria techniques based on theoretical saturation of the research participants. Themes related to the exemplary educational leader were extracted as 89 basic themes (primary), 5 organizer themes (principal) and one pervasive theme, from in-depth semi-structured interviews with the participants and investigating Islamic documents, such as Quran and Nahjolbalaqa, and were designed as the network of osveh educational leader themes. osveh educational leader themes.

The aim of this study is explain Knowledge and attitudes of Principals toward Change management in their creativity in schools. The research method is Descriptive –correlation that conducted through a survey and structural equation modeling. Statistical population included all of educational managers of Khoram Abad (353) and is select 184 of them using Simple random sampling as Statistical sample. In order to collect data, a standard questionnaire of organizational creativity (reliability: 0.92) and two researcher made questionnaire of Knowledge and attitude toward change management (reliability: 0.87) is used. In this study for Analysis of data is used SPSS and Lisrel. The results show that Change management knowledge and Attitude about it respectively with path coefficient (g=0.38) and (g=0.25) has a significant role in organizational creativity and are suitable Predictions for creative or non-creative of managers. Educational managers had a favorable attitude in the field of change management but their knowledge in the field of change management in schools and educational environments is not enough. It was also found that managers in every three fields of creativity (cognition, motivation and personality traits) have possessed favorable organizational creativity.

The purpose of the study was to to investigate the relationship between emotional intelligence; organizational learning and job performance among educational managers. The study used the descriptive (correlation) method of data collection. A number of 185 managers were selected using proportional stratified sampling and finally 133 questionnaires were completed. Three instruments emotional intelligence questionnaire, organizational learning questionnaire, job performance questionnaire was used to collect data. The hypotheses were tested using Pearson correlation and Structural Equation Modeling by SPSS 16 and LISREL 8.54. The results indicated that emotional intelligence, organizational learning and job performance had significant positive with each other. Emotional intelligence of managers was significant positive an anticipation of organizational learning. Also emotional intelligence of managers was significant positive anticipation of job performance. But emotional intelligence and job performance have an indirect relationship. It means that organizational learning plays intermediate role in relation to emotional intelligence and job performance.

The main objective of this study is to identify the main dimensions and indicators of teachers’ organizational silence behavior. For this purpose, descriptive phenomenology was applied as a qualitative research method. To deeply investigate the issue, documentary research method, literature review as well as semi-structured interviews were applied. Participants in this study include 21 teachers having more than 15 years of experience and expert heads of educational departments, school managers and supervisors in the field of education, that were selected using purposive and snowball sampling methods to reach to theoretical saturation. To verify the findings, members` survey and review method was used. Reliability method of agreement between two encoders (intersubjective agreement) is also applied. The analyze data, inductive content analysis method was applied using encoding in three levels: open, axial and elected. the findings show that the teachers` organizational silence behavior was identified including 18 indicators in five main dimensions of Acquiescence Silence, Defensive Silence, Relational Silence, Tradesman-  Silence and Silent Voice. This Research can be a useful base for making an indigenous questionnaire for measuring teachers` organizational silence for the researchers and students of related fields.

Todays, education is seen as cultural issues which learners receive and interpret educational materials through their cultures. Considering that the learners may be belonging to different cultural groups, therefore, the culture is not unique and integrated issue. Therefore, multicultural education is necessary. In spite of different researches in Iran have been concentrated on multicultural education but there isn’t any comprehensive reviews and Meta studies about that researches. The aim of the current research was to image structural, methodological and contextual orientations of multicultural research in the school context in Iran. To achieve the aim, qualitative meta- analysis was conducted and a total of 26 researches were evaluated. The findings showed that not only multicultural education is relatively new issue for many of the researchers but the multi-cultural researches have deficiencies quantitatively and qualitatively. The limited contribution of the writers which are belonging to cultural minorities in multi- cultural researches; the limited contribution of qualitative researches in these area and finally, extensive concentration on the reflection multi- cultural education components and neglecting other issues are the most problematic issues.

The aim of this study was to investigate the role of group organizational citizenship behavior on effectiveness of the girls' primary schools in Tehran. To carry out this study, descriptive study (correlation) is used. The population of this research consisted of primary school teachers in 2 district of Tehran in the academic year 94-93. Optimized sample through the sampling volume was determined that 395 teachers were chosen randomly distributed between them. In this study, two main research tool is a questionnaire effectiveness questionnaire Parsons (1967) and group organizational citizenship behavior Vigoda-Gadot et al (2007). To calculate and determine the reliability of Cronbach's alpha coefficient was used. Pearson correlation analysis to examine the relationship between the study variables and the dependent variable variance for multiple regression analysis were used. Results showed a significant positive correlation between the group organizational citizenship behavior and school effectiveness there. As well as group organizational citizenship behavior would explain the 52/7% of the variance in school effectiveness.

The aim of this study is to identify of professional qualifications for Presentation of professional development model of high school Administrators in Kurdistan province at 2015-2016 academic years. The approach of this research was qualitative approach and research method was Grounded Theory (systematic plan). The population of this study was consisted of all secondary school Administrators in Kurdistan province. Purposeful sampling continued until the researcher reached theoretical saturation using semi-structured interviews with 40 members of the sample reached. With Using the results of the investigation and theoretical research and content analysis conducted interviews, Basic indicators of professional development of school administrators identify and included in three stages including: open coding, axial coding and selective coding professional development model of school administrators and in five main categories causal conditions, the central phenomenon (the professional development of school Administrators), professional development strategies managers, intermediate conditions and consequences of the development professional of school administrators.

The purpose of this study is to assessment of quality status in high schools from the view of at school community members (principals, teachers, students and parents) based on scale of Total Quality management. The approach of study is quantitative and it’s based on Evaluation research method. Sampling group in this study consist of all members of school community members at high school in Kuhdasht city and sample approach is random- classification to determine number of sample we use Morgan table that total number of sample is 340 in this number 110 teacher and 28 Principals and 115 students and 87 parents. To collect data and control of quality of checklist self-assessment of Barlosky and Lawton (1995) was used. That result show level of quality in high schools. The on way variance was used to result of school community members in this field. That result show that teacher and manager attitude was acceptable and students and parents' attitude is not. At lost there was a meaningful difference between school community members. Teachers and managers in comparison to students and manager in comparison to teacher and finally both teachers and managers have positive assessment of quality according to scales in schools.

The aim of the present study was the relationship between organization agility, self-esteem organization and morale and job satisfaction, principal's secondary schools for government girls. The study was descriptive and correlation. The population of this research all girls secondary school principals were of Tabriz in 2016-2017, according to the Department of Education, 126 of them are. To select sample of managers and 95 managers were randomly selected and evaluated according to Morgan. To collect the data, Minnesota job satisfaction, morale managers Mirkamali, self-esteem-organization Pierce and et al and organization agility Spitzer was used. To analyze the data, descriptive statistics, and correlation and regression analysis were used. The results showed that there is a significant positive relationship between job satisfaction and morale managers, self-esteem-organization and organization agility. Meanwhile, self-esteem-organization and organization agility capable of criterion variables predict job satisfaction in managers. Therefore, in addition to providing facilities to accommodate the needs of managers, training and increased self-esteem, organization agility, morale managers increased their job satisfaction.