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This research studies effects such as role pressure and burnout experienced by teachers as a result of the organizational transformation of Taiwanese vocational schools into general purpose high schools.

Abstract
Teachers in the City of Kaohsiung affected by this transformation were surveyed with the goal of achieving the following objectives:
(1) To identify the general reactions of teachers to the change.
(2) To explore the added role pressure experienced by the teachers as a result of the transformation and the related burnout issues. Furthermore, to understand which types of role pressure and burnouts are considered to be the most severe.
(3) To understand the relationship between the role pressure and the sense of burnout experienced by the teachers.
(4) To investigate the intervening effect role pressure plays between burnout and the organizational transformation.
(5) To explore the effects that societal support has on the level of burnout experienced by the teachers.
The survey used in this research targets teachers who have been affected by the change in status of vocational high schools into general purpose college-preparatory high schools in the city of Kaohsiung. A total of 490 surveys were delivered, with 416 of them returned from the recipients. The response rate is 84.9%. The survey responses were analyzed by the SPSS10.0 statistical software package for mean, standard deviation,one-way ANOVA,T ¡VTest cronbach £\, reliability analysis, factor analysis, pearson of correlation, regression analysis:
Assumptions:
(1) The high school teachers possess an above average understanding of the organizational transformation process.
(2)The high school teachers experience larger than average level of role pressure and burnout as a result of the transformation.
(3)That there is a positive correlation between role pressure and burnout
(4) That role pressure plays an intervening role between the transformation and burnout.
(5) That social support has an influence on role pressure and burnout.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0728104-145628
Date28 July 2004
CreatorsWANG, Chan-Mei
ContributorsBih-Shiaw Jaw, Ing-Chung Huang, Liang-Chih Huang
PublisherNSYSU
Source SetsNSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive
LanguageCholon
Detected LanguageEnglish
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Sourcehttp://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0728104-145628
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