RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PRINCIPAL’S PARTICIPATORY MANAGEMENT AND TEACHERS’ ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT
Abstract
- The purposes of this study are to investigate the levels of principal’s participatory management, the variations of principal’s participatory management, the levels of teachers’ organizational commitment, the variations of teachers’ organizational commitment and relationship between principal’s participatory management and teachers’ organizational commitment in Basic Education High Schools. Both quantitative and qualitative methods were adopted. Seven principals and 180 teachers were selected as subjects by using purposive sampling. One set of questionnaire with two portions was used. For quantitative study, 59 items with four point Likert scale were used to collect data. For qualitative study, 6 open-ended questions were used. In order to obtain content validity of the questionnaires, expert review was conducted to experienced educators from Department of Educational Theory, Yangon University of Education. The reliability coefficient (Cronbach’s alpha) for the whole scale was 0.89. Descriptive statistics, independent samples t test, one-way ANOVA and Pearson correlation were employed to analyze data in quantitative study. The findings showed that the level of principal’s participatory management in Myanaung Township was high. There were significant differences grouped by years of service as a principal and marital status. The level of teachers’ organizational commitment in Myanaung Township was moderate. There was a significant difference grouped by years of service in current school. There was a positively low relationship between principal’s participatory management and teachers’ organizational commitment.
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Year
- 2020
Author
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Paing Aung Soe
Subject
- Educational Theory
Publisher
- Myanmar Academy of Arts and Science (MAAS)