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A Study on the Restructuring of the Administrative Organization Within elementary schools in Kaohsiung City

Abstract
The purpose of this study is to explore the restructuring of the administrative organization in Kaohsiung City¡¦s elementary schools. It further analyzes the perception of educators with different independent variables toward the workload of elementary school administrative units, adjustment of business coverage of different units, adjustment of organization structure of school administration, and the adjustment of staffing. This study randomly samples 660 subjects, including 44 elementary school principals, 88 unit directors, 176 section chiefs, and 352 teachers without administrative duties. A total of 502 questionnaires were returned and 498 were evaluated as valid.
The method of questionnaire survey is adopted in this research to collect data with the help of the tool: ¡§A questionnaire for exploring the restructure of the administration organization in Kaohsiung City¡¦s elementary schools¡¨. Data obtained in this study are analyzed by the descriptive statistics, t-test, one-way ANOVA, and two-way ANOVA. The major findings of this study are as follows:
I.Most school educators consider that the workload of differentadministrative units is heavy.
II.Most school educators consider that the organizational adjustment ofadministrative units and sections is not necessary.
III.Most school educators consider that the policy about the adjustmentof school staffing is not necessary.
IV.The effect of background variables on the school educators¡¦ perception toward the workload of different administrative units is significant.
V.The effect of background variables on the school educators¡¦ perception toward the organizational adjustment of different administrative units and sections is significant.
VI.The effect of background variables on the school educators¡¦perception toward the policy of adjusting the school staffingis significant.
VII.Over 60% of the school educators admit that the wordload of ¡§Computer Equipment Maintenance¡¨ of Information Section is too heavy and should consider the way of labor outsourcing.¡@
VIII.All subjects believe that the Section Chief of General Affairs Office should be taken charge by the clerks; among 30% of all subjects, the most urgent need to be appointed are listed in order: General Affairs Section and Cashier¡¦s Section. The next in order are Section Chiefs of Information Section and Equipment Section.
VIIII.On the premise that the total number of the staffing quota keep to the status quo, the subjects believe that the most urgent need to be increased is the number of teachers, while the most urgent need to be reduced is the number of janitors.
Finally, several specific suggestions based on the research findings are proposed to the educational administrative authorities, school administration system, and the further studies in the future.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0811105-165138
Date11 August 2005
CreatorsYen, Yu-Shian
Contributorsnone, Ching-Hwa Tsai, none
PublisherNSYSU
Source SetsNSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive
LanguageCholon
Detected LanguageEnglish
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Formatapplication/pdf
Sourcehttp://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0811105-165138
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