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Elstad, Eyvind; Christophersen, Knut-Andreas; Turmo, Are – Journal of Educational Administration, 2012
Purpose: Organisational citizenship behaviour (OCB) involves discretionary behaviour advantageous to the organisation that goes beyond existing role expectations. The purpose of this paper is to explore the link between the strength of accountability and teachers' OCB within three different management systems in which teachers are working: a…
Descriptors: Management Systems, Citizenship, Structural Equation Models, Governance
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Elstad, Eyvind; Christophersen, Knut Andreas; Turmo, Are – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2011
Primary processes in schools are hard to pin down despite attempts to measure central aspects of processes and outputs. For this very reason, it is important that teachers are motivated to go above and beyond their formal job responsibilities, a phenomenon called organizational citizenship behaviour. Social exchange theory is a theoretical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Leadership, Citizenship, Social Exchange Theory
Christophersen, Knut-Andreas; Elstad, Eyvind; Turmo, Are – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2011
The integration policies in some Northern European countries display relatively poor outcomes of passed exam rates for immigrant language training, and several groups of immigrants have very low employment rates. These measures, in many countries, are strong incentives for host-country language acquisition in addition to the obligation to document…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Educators, Immigrants, Social Integration