1993 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
An Empirical Study on Effects of Organizational Climate and Culture on Teachers Professional Development
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04610147
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Educaion
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| Research Institution | HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY |
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Principal Investigator |
HAYASHI Takashi HIROSHIMA Univ., School Education, Associate Prof., 学校教育学部, 助教授 (30144786)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1992 – 1993
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| Keywords | Professional Development / Career Development / School Management Organization / Organizational Climate / Organizational Culture / Teacher's Commitment / Teacher's Self-educability |
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| Research Abstract |
The purposes of this study are to clarify the differences of the organizational climate and culture in elementary schools which contribute to the professional development of teachers, and to get the information about school improvement which promote the professional development of teachers in their schools. I gathered data by administering five questionnaires to 189 practice teachers, 235 teachers in schools of practice teaching, 128 initiate teachers, 149 principals in initiate teachers' schools, and 575 teachers, vice-principals and principals in elementary shools. The questionnaires were designed to collect the information about their cognition of organizational climate and culture, their perception of the image of school organization, and the self-evaluation of their abilities, self-educability and job commitment. The main findings of this study are as follows :
1. I identified the five following dimensions of the image they held of organizational climate in their school by means of SD (Semantic Differential) method ; Bureaucratic, Emotion-enriching, Disengaging, Growth-oriented and Autonomous dimension.
2. I identified the effect of the organizational climate and culture on the professional development concerned with teaching abilities for the practice teachers, initiate teachers and teachers of less than five years experiences, and on the professional development concerned with self-educability and job commitment for teachers on each stage of career.
3. I clarified the difference of the prior affairs in order to improve each school management in developing the teachers' abilities by investigation the relationship between their images of the organizational climate and the descriptive questions of the organizational climate and culture.
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