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Publication Date: 1977-Mar
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Relationship of Organizational Structure and Leadership Behavior to Staff Satisfaction in IGE Schools. Technical Report No. 412.
Mendenhall, Diana Reed
The purposes of this study were to determine the relationship of structural aspects of the school organization and leadership behavior in schools to job satisfaction within Individually Guided Education (IGE) schools, and to determine whether organizational structure or leadership behavior had more impact on job satisfaction in IGE schools. Data were collected from 41 principals, 41 unit leaders, and 138 intermediate-level teachers in 41 multiunit IGE elementary schools in 13 different states. Major conclusions of the study were 1) leader behavior accounted for more of the variance in job satisfaction than did organizational structure; 2) total principal leadership, principal support, principal interaction facilitation, unit leader interaction facilitation, and unit leader work facilitation were the most influential leader behavior variables; and 3) formalization, stratification, unitwide centralization, building complexity, and extraschool centralization were the most influential organizational structure variables. (Author/JG)
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Sponsor: National Inst. of Education (DHEW), Washington, DC.
Authoring Institution: Wisconsin Univ., Madison. Research and Development Center for Cognitive Learning.
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