Transformational leadership researchers have given little attention to teacher expectations that mediate between goals and actions. The most important of these expectations, teacher efficacy, refers to teacher beliefs that they will be able to bring about student learning. This study examined the mediating effects of teacher efficacy by comparing two models derived from Bandura’s socialcognitiv...

In this study, it was tried to determine the teachers’ level of organizational commitment with regard to the commitment to school, to teaching works, to work group and to teaching occupation. In the direction of this aim, a scale with four dimensions including 28 items was administrated for determining the teachers’ organizational commitment. That scale was applied on 302 teachers who are worki...

Background: Professional ethics as a branch of ethical knowledge examines ethical assignments in a profession and its ethical issues and seeks to provide ways and guidelines that determine these assignments for individuals and professional groups. The overall purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of professional ethics training on job involvement and organizational commitment...

BACKGROUND There is a need to prevent anxiety and depression in young people and mindfulness contains important emotion regulation strategies. Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), a mindfulness-based therapy, has yet to be evaluated as a prevention program, but has demonstrated an ability to reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression in adult and adolescent populations. This study examines t...

employees' job attitudes play an important role in realizing the organizational goals. one of important factors in increasing organizational commitment and employees' extra-job behaviors is to secure organizational identity. one of jobs requiring a high level of organizational identity, loyalty, organizational commitment and doing extra-job behaviors is teaching in high-schools. realization of ...

BACKGROUND Interventions to improve young people's health are most commonly delivered via schools. While young people attending the lowest socioeconomic status (SES) schools report poorer health profiles, no previous studies have examined whether there is an 'inverse care law' in school health improvement activity (i.e., whether schools in more affluent areas deliver more health improvement). N...

Introduction Transformational school leaders play an important role in promoting educational innovation and restructuring by creating a vision for the future, building culture of collaboration, empowering others to become themselves. Through their leadership style, they inspire motivate work towards common goal, leading positive change growth within system. The aim this study is measure impact ...