The purpose of this study is to discuss the relationship among educational reform stress, working values, and organizational commitment perceived by primary school teachers. First, relevant literature on educational reform, job stress of teachers, working values, and organizational commitment is collected, investigated, and analyzed. Next, the framework of the research is devised, the questionnaire is edited and pre-tested, and the research instrument of this study¡X¡§Questionnaire of Education Reforms and the Work Attitude of Primary School Teachers¡¨¡Xis developed accordingly. Then, primary school teachers of Kaohsiung county are used as research population, from which 810 teachers in 67 schools are randomly sampled as research subjects. 761 copies of the 810 questionnaires issued are returned, among which 750 copies are valid. The returning ratio is 92%. After questionnaires are collected, statistics methods, such as descriptive analysis, t-test, one way MANOVA, Pearson's product-moment correlation, canonical correlation, and stepwise multiple regression, are used to analyze them. Finally, results of this study are discussed.
Conclusions of this study are as follows:
a) The greatest education reform pressure primary school teachers feel is ¡§workload¡¨, and the second greatest is ¡§curriculum reform¡¨.
b) The highest value primary school teachers emphasize is ¡§organizational security¡¨, and the second greatest is ¡§interpersonal relationship¡¨.
c) Primary school teachers are mostly content with organizational commitments which are ¡§a hard-working attitude¡¨, ¡§the inclination to keep the job¡¨ and ¡§organizational identity¡¨.
d) Primary school teachers have different educational reform pressure, work values, and organizational commitment due to their different backgrounds.
e) The less educational reform pressure primary school teachers feel the higher commitment they make.
f) The higher work value primary school teachers emphasize the higher commitment they make.
g) For most of primary school teachers, education reform pressure and organizational commitment are related in a negative way.
h) For primary school teachers, work values and organizational commitment are related in a positive way.
i) The relationship among education reform pressure, work values and organizational commitment of primary school teachers.
j) Education reform pressure and work values can predict organizational commitment. And interpersonal relationship is a major predicator variable.
According to the above conclusions, this study brings about the following results:
A. For educational administrative organization:
a) Education reform should include complete complementary packages, increase the number of teachers to reduce teacher's workload.
b) Raise work values and strengthen teacher's organizational commitment.
c) Accredit and support elementary teachers¡¦ highly positive hard-working attitude.
B. For School Administrative:
a) Encourage elementary teachers attending educational workshops, acquiring future knowledge, and adapting changes.
b) Set reasonable work goals, improve the work environment and reduce teacher's work pressure.
c) Strengthen teacher's ability to manage pressure and improve their mental and physical health.
d) Build excellent interpersonal relationship and interactive patterns.
e) Establish a rotation mechanism of teacher's holding concurrent administrative jobs and increase the opportunities of teachers' participation in the decision-making of school affairs.
f) Guide and show concerns for young and inexperienced teachers in order to solidify their sense of cohesion.
C. For teachers:
a) Actively attend workshops and conferences to increase professional knowledge.
b) Seize any opportunities to participate in administrative work.
c) Expand social circles to improve interpersonal interactive relationship.
D. Submit suggestions to object of study, research methods, research variables, and research instruments respectively, as some people of interest might pursue the topic of this study further.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0527105-090325 |
| Date | 27 May 2005 |
| Creators | Ho, Yung-chuan |
| Contributors | Pai-lu Wu, Tsai-feng Cheng, Ching-ruey Chen |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0527105-090325 |
| Rights | unrestricted, Copyright information available at source archive |
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