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Interpersonal staff relationships and the healthy school : educators' experiences

Thesis (MEdPsych (Educational Psychology))--University of Stellenbosch, 2004. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: My study aims to ascertain whether interpersonal staff relationships have a role to play in the healthy development of a school as an organisation. My specific focus is on how educators experience these relationships, and how they impact on the educators' commitment to a particular school. My research design consisted of three case studies. I used a semi-structured questionnaire with each case and at a later date had a group discussion. My analysis of the questionnaires' data provided tentative themes for inclusion and further exploration in the group discussion. The combination of two data production phases resulted in the confirmation and expansion of the data. My study shows that various factors impact on interpersonal staff relationships within a school. These interpersonal staff relationships have a bearing on the continuance, moral and alienative dimensions of commitment, and impact on staff retention and job performance. They also impact directly on the health of the educators. Thus interpersonal staff relationships would seem to have an important role to play in the development of healthy schools. I conclude by acknowledging the limitations of this study, and recommending further research.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:sun/oai:scholar.sun.ac.za:10019.1/1050
Date12 1900
CreatorsLe Roux, Philippa
ContributorsNewmark, Rona, Assignments -- Education, University of Stellenbosch. Faculty of Education. Dept. of Educational Psychology.
PublisherStellenbosch : University of Stellebosch
Source SetsSouth African National ETD Portal
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis
Format110897 bytes, 102580 bytes, 852339 bytes, 97052 bytes, 94647 bytes, application/pdf, application/pdf, application/pdf, application/pdf, application/pdf
RightsUniversity of Stellenbosch

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