Abstract The purposes of this study are to investigate the relationship among teachers¡¦ perceptions of principals¡¦ transformational leadership behaviors, teachers¡¦ organizational commitment, and teachers¡¦ job of involvement of elementary school teachers in Kaohsiung County. The major purposes are as follows¡G 1.To understand the situation of teachers¡¦ perceptions of principals¡¦ transformational leadership behaviors, teachers¡¦ organizational commitment, and teachers¡¦ job involvement¡F 2.To understand their differences on different backgrounds of elementary school teachers¡F 3.To investigate the differences of teachers¡¦ perceptions of principals¡¦ transformational leadership behaviors in teachers¡¦ organizational commitment and teachers¡¦ job involvement¡F 4.To understand the prediction effect of teachers¡¦ organizational commitment and teachers¡¦ job involvement from teachers¡¦ perceptions of principals¡¦ transformational leadership behaviors. In order to achieve its purposes, this study has methodologically adopted document analysis, questionnaire survey. The subjects are public elementary school teachers in Kaohsiung County. The tool of this study, ¡§Elmentary School Principals¡¦ Tansformational Leadership Behaviors and Teachers¡¦ Organizational Commitment and Teachers¡¦ Job Involvement Survey Questionnaire¡¨ was designed and then 613 samples were surveyed. The data were analyzed and presented by t-test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson¡¦ s product-moment correlation, and stepwise multiple regressions. The conclusions of this study are as follows¡G 1.The teachers¡¦ perceptions of principals¡¦ transformational leadership behaviors have high positive response in elementary schools. 2.The dimension of identification with school has high good response in teachers¡¦ organizational commitment. 3.The dimension of concentration on work has high good response in teachers¡¦ job involvement. 4.First, different personal variables have differences in teachers¡¦ perceptions of principals¡¦ transformational leadership behaviors. Next,different personal variables have differences in teachers¡¦ organizational commitment. Finally, different personal variables have differences in teachers¡¦ job involvement. 5.First, teachers¡¦ perceptions of principals¡¦ transformational leadership behaviors have great positive correlation with teachers¡¦ organizational commitment. Next, teachers¡¦ perceptions of principals¡¦ transformational leadership behaviors have great positive correlation with teachers¡¦ job involvement.Last, teachers¡¦ organizational commitment have great positive correlation with teachers¡¦ job involvement. 6.Different teachers¡¦ organizational commitment and teachers¡¦ job involvement have differences in different teachers¡¦ perceptions ofprincipals¡¦ transformational leadership behaviors. And the high level ofteachers¡¦ perceptions of principals¡¦ transformational leadership behaviors is higher in teachers¡¦ organizational commitment and teachers¡¦ job involvement than the middle level and the low level. 7.Teachers¡¦ perceptions of principals¡¦ transformational leadership behaviors are powerful in predicting teachers¡¦ organizational commitment in elementary schools. 8.Teachers¡¦ perceptions of principals¡¦ transformational leadership behaviors are powerful in predicting teachers¡¦ job involvement in elementary schools.

Competitive environment in education, junior high school students with substantially reduced. If the junior high schools to be sustainable, the school must rely on cooperative efforts of all teachers and asked them to contribute their expertise to maintain the competitiveness of the school. This study focuses primarily on public junior high schools in Kaohsiung City, investigating the relationship among principal's transformational leadership behavior, teachers¡¦ job satisfactions and organizational commitment in kaohsiung Junior High 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 390 teachers in 39 junior high school teachers of Kaohsiung City, with 333 valid questionnaires returned. The following results are reached: 1. The more the principals focus on their transformational leadership, the better job satisfaction their teachers have. 2. The more the principals focus on their transformational leadership, the better organizational commitment their teachers have. 3. Higher degrees of the principal's transformational leadership and teachers¡¦s job satisfaction, in climate of organization boost organizational commitment from the teachers.

The purpose of this study is to analyze the relationships between stress and outcomes including organizational citizenship behavior (OCB), job satisfaction, and burnout in high-risk occupations. Moreover, how personality, emotions, coping, and leadership influence this relationship is investigated. Data were collected from 379 officers in 9 police organizations located in the Southern and Southwest United States. The primary research question addressed within this dissertation is: What is the relationship between stress and behavioral and affective outcomes in high-risk occupations as governed by coping, leadership, and crisis? The majority of the hypothesized relationships were supported, and inconsistencies center on methodological and theoretical factors. Findings indicate that occupational stressors negatively influence individuals in high-risk occupations. Moreover, crisis events exacerbate these influences. The use of adaptive coping strategies is most effective under conditions of low stress, but less so under highly stressful circumstances. Similarly, transformational leader behaviors most effectively influence how individuals in high-risk occupations are affected by lower, but not higher levels of stress. Profiles of personality characteristics and levels of emotional dissonance also influence the chosen coping strategies of those working in high-risk occupations. Prescriptively, it is important to understand the influences among the variables assessed in this study, because negative outcomes in high-risk occupations are potentially more harmful to workers and more costly to organizations. Thus, this dissertation answers the research question, but much work in this area remains to be done.

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