A STUDY ON THE INTER-RELATIONSHIP OF PRINCIPLE¡¦S TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP, INNOVATIVE CLIMATE OF ORGANIZATION, AND TEACHERS' ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS OF KAOHSIUNG CITY Abstract This study focuses primarily on public elementary schools in Kaohsiung City, investigating the inter-relationship of principal's transformational leadership, innovative climate of organization, and teachers' organizational commitment. The purposes of this study are to a) investigate the present situation of consciousness of elementary school teachers towards principal's transformational leadership, innovative climate of organization, and teachers' organizational commitment; b) understand the cognitive differences of elementary school teachers from different backgrounds towards principal's transformational leadership, innovative climate of organization, and teachers' organizational commitment; c) look deeply into elementary school teachers¡¦ perceptivity towards the inter-relationship among principal's transformational leadership, innovative climate of organization, and teachers' organizational commitment; d) submit some humble suggestions, in accordance with the results of this study, so that the educational administrative authorities and school administration as well can use them as references; and hopefully, innovative climate of organization at school can be enhanced, which in turn promote the fulfillment of the perception of teachers' organizational commitment, benefiting the upgrading of organization efficacy of schools. ¡@¡@The rational and research structures of this study are literature review. Then it serves as the basis for designing research instruments. Survey method is used to examine 605 teachers in 33 elementary school teachers of Kaohsiung City, with 553 valid questionnaires returned. Test instruments include ¡§Scales of Principal's transformational leadership,¡¨ ¡§Scales of Innovative Climate of Organization,¡¨ and ¡§Scales of Organizational Commitment from Teachers.¡¨ Data from valid questionnaires are tested and analyzed by t-test, single-factor ANOVA, movement correlation, typical correlation, and gradual-multiple transgression. The following results are reached: 1. The performance of principal's transformational leadership of the elementary schools in Kaohsiung City can be located between middle and high levels, in which ¡§encouragement and inspiration¡¨ is the best. 2. Innovative climate of organization of the schools occupies between middle and high levels, and ¡§self-reliance toward the assignment¡¨ has the best performance. 3. Organizational Commitment of elementary school teachers at the present occupies between middle and high levels, in which ¡§commitment of hardworking¡¨ is the best. 4. Teachers who are male, senior, experienced, and holding concurrent administrative jobs perceive a higher degree of the whole phase of principal's transformational leadership. 5. Teachers who are senior, experienced, and holding concurrent administrative jobs as section deans perceive a higher degree of innovative climate of organization. 6. Teachers who are senior, experienced, and holding concurrent administrative jobs as dean deans in middle-sized schools perceive a higher degree of organizational commitment. 7. The more the principals focus on their transformational leadership, the better innovative climate their schools have. 8. The more the principals focus on their transformational leadership, the better organizational commitment their teachers have. 9. The higher degrees the teachers perceive innovative climate of their schools, the better their commitment to their schools. 10. Higher degrees of the principal's transformational leadership and innovative climate of organization boost organizational commitment from the teachers. 11. Principal's transformational leadership and innovative climate of organization can validly predict teachers¡¦ organizational commitment, in which ¡§the challenges from assignments¡¨ has the best predictability. As a conclusion,the study results will be references for all Bureau of Education's and school's administrative organization.

Tyrimo aktualumas. Darbo temos pasirinkimą lėmė tai, jog Lietuvos mokyklų bendruomenės, jų psichosocialinė aplinka bei kokybiško funkcionavimo kontekstas – mažai tyrinėta sritis. Šiuolaikinei mokyklai, siekiančiai efektyviai veikti nuolatinės kaitos sąlygomis, reikalinga naujai pažvelgti į žmogiškųjų išteklių valdymą, todėl vienas esminių mokyklos tobulinimo uždavinių turėtų būti palankaus klimato kūrimas. Palankus švietimo organizacijų klimatas yra svarbi ugdymo rezultatyvumo, veiklos efektyvumo prielaida, sąlygojanti visuotinės kokybės vadybos įdiegimą organizacijoje. Praktinis darbo naudingumas pasireiškia tuo, kad klimato tyrimas atspindi objektyvų organizacijos vaizdą, atskleidžia problemines sritis, padeda nustatyti sėkmingo funkcionavimo veiksnius. / Relevance of the research. The choice of the topic was determined by the fact that there is a lack of research in the realm of Lithuanian school communities, their psychosocial environment and the context of their qualitative functioning. In its efforts to operate efficiently under the conditions of constant change, a modern school has to make new insights into the management of human resources, thus one of the main objectives of school improvement should be a creation of favourable climate. Favourable climate of educational institutions is a significant prerequisite for educational effectiveness and efficiency of activities determining the implementation of general quality management in the organization. Practical usefulness of the thesis is that the research in climate reflects objective image of the organisation, reveals problem areas and helps to determine the factors of successful functioning.

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Submitted by ELZE CAMILA FERREIRA RODRIGUES null (elzerodrigues@gmail.com) on 2016-06-06T19:02:34Z No. of bitstreams: 1 RODRIGUES, Elze. (Dissertação) A atuação internacional do Brasil para as mudanças climáticas - as COP de 2009 a 2015.pdf: 1314961 bytes, checksum: 200eb2bbd9bf67956a9ed43d2124a102 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Juliano Benedito Ferreira (julianoferreira@reitoria.unesp.br) on 2016-06-07T13:44:15Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 rodrigues_ecf_me_mar.pdf: 1314961 bytes, checksum: 200eb2bbd9bf67956a9ed43d2124a102 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-07T13:44:15Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 rodrigues_ecf_me_mar.pdf: 1314961 bytes, checksum: 200eb2bbd9bf67956a9ed43d2124a102 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-06-03 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) / No ano de 2009, durante a décima quinta edição da Conferência das Partes (COP) da Convenção-Quadro das Nações Unidas para as Mudanças Climáticas (UNFCCC, na sigla em inglês), a representação diplomática brasileira assumiu para o país um compromisso voluntário de redução das emissões nacionais de gases causadores do efeito estufa. Tal evento foi marcante no regime internacional de mudanças climáticas e na trajetória da política externa ambiental brasileira por conta do pioneirismo do país entre os intermediários que não pertencem ao Anexo I. Essa atitude da diplomacia brasileira é parte da conjuntura vivida pelo multilateralismo ambiental em que a tradicional clivagem Norte-Sul ganhava também a categoria intermediária das economias emergentes. A atuação do Brasil e de outros países dessa categoria teve reflexos nos debates nos anos posteriores à COP-15. O objetivo desse trabalho é, assim, analisar a atuação da diplomacia brasileira entre a COP-15 e a COP-21 diante dos desafios das mudanças climáticas e do multilateralismo. Para tanto, faz-se uma análise da política externa ambiental do país neste período, bem como um paralelo com a atuação dos países do BASIC na mesma cronologia. / In 2009, during the fifteenth edition of the Conference of the Parties (COP) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the Brazilian diplomatic representation took a voluntary commitment to reduce national emissions of greenhouse gas effect. This was an outstanding event in the international climate change regime and in the trajectory of Brazilian environmental foreign policy because of the country's pioneering among the intermediaries economies that do not belong to Annex I. This attitude of Brazilian diplomacy is a part of the framework experienced by environmental multilateralism where the traditional division between North-South includes now the intermediate category of emerging economies. The performance of Brazil and other countries in that category was reflected in the discussions in the years after COP-15. The aim of this study is to analyze the performance of Brazilian diplomacy between the COP-15 and COP-21 concerning the challenges of climate change and multilateralism. Therefore, it is an analysis of the Brazilian environmental foreign policy during this period as well as a comparison with the performance of the BASIC countries in the same timeline.