Date of Award
Summer 8-2018
Degree Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department
Educational Research and Administration
Committee Chair
James Fox
Committee Chair Department
Educational Research and Administration
Committee Member 2
Kyna Shelley
Committee Member 2 Department
Educational Research and Administration
Committee Member 3
Richard Mohn
Committee Member 3 Department
Educational Research and Administration
Committee Member 4
Stanley Benigno
Committee Member 4 Department
Educational Research and Administration
Committee Member 5
Colby Jubenville
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to examine transformational leadership practices of principals and the relationship of these practices and teacher organizational citizenship behavior. A secondary purpose of this study was to determine if prior athletic coaching experience served as a moderator between school leadership practices and teacher organizational citizenship behavior. Twenty-seven secondary schools participated in the study, while the head principal of each school served as the administrative representative being nested within the respective school. Secondary school teachers (n=908) completed the Leadership Practices Inventory and the Organizational Citizenship Behavior Scale. Secondary school principals (n=27) responded to the Athletic Coaching Experience questionnaire, which gathered data on previous athletic coaching experience.
In order to report the outcomes of the three hypotheses hierarchical linear modeling was used to account for teachers being nested within schools. The model revealed there was a significant linear relationship between transformational leadership practices and teacher organizational citizenship behavior as a whole. The only single dimension of transformational leadership practices that reported a statistically significant linear relationship between the dimensions of model the way, inspire a shared vision, challenge the process, enable others to act, and encourage the heart and teacher organizational citizenship behavior was challenge the process. There was no statistically significant linear relationship between the moderating effect of prior athletic coaching experience and transformational leadership practices and teacher organizational citizenship behavior.
Copyright
2018, Jeff White
Recommended Citation
White, Jeff, "The Moderating Effect of Prior Principal Athletic Coaching Experience on the Relationship Between Transformational Leadership and Teacher Organizational Citizenship Behavior in Secondary Schools in Mississippi" (2018). Dissertations. 1559.
https://aquila.usm.edu/dissertations/1559