英文摘要 |
The study empirically investigates the relationships among principals' positive leadership, teacher empowerment, and teacher psychological contract. As well as teacher empowerment is the mediating between the positive leadership and the teacher's psychological contract. The survey objects were elementary school educators across Taiwan area. The study issued a total of 1000 questionnaires, with the return rate of 91.2%, among which there were 886 questionnaires valid. Teachers were asked to measure the effectiveness of principals' positive leadership, teacher empowerment and teacher psychological contract. This study used structural equation modeling with prospective data to test for model fit. The findings indicate that principals' positive leadership positively affects teacher empowerment. Furthermore, teacher empowerment directly affects teacher psychological contract. Principals' positive leadership also positively influences their teacher psychological contract achievement. The results suggest that the school should implement positive leadership to accelerate teacher empowerment in school operation in order to improve the whole teacher psychological contract. |