A Study on the Relationship between the Principal’s Space Leadership and the Administrative Staff’s Organizational Commitment of Elementary Schools in Taichung City

本研究旨在探究臺中市國民小學校長空間領導與行政人員組織承諾之現況，並由不同背景變項切入了解行政人員知覺校長空間領導與組織承諾之差異情形。同時，建構與驗證校長空間領導與行政人員組織承諾之關係與結構方程模式之適配程度，以探究校長空間領導對行政人員組織承諾之預測力。 為達上述目的，本研究採用問卷調查法進行研究，抽樣臺中市112所公立國民小學，總計發出702份問卷，回收572份，回收率81%，有效問卷516份問卷，可用率90.2%。所得資料以IBM SPSS 21.0版與AMOS 21版統計套裝軟體進行處理，運用描述性統計、獨立樣本t考驗、單因子變異數分析、積差相關分析、結構方程模式進行統計分析。 根據統計分析結果，獲致下列結論： 一、臺中市國民小學校長空間領導達高程度表現，以「形塑空間願景」方面之努力最獲行政人員肯定。 二、臺中市國民小學行政人員組織承諾具高程度表現，並以「努力承諾」表現最佳。 三、「擁有碩士學歷者」、「擔任主任」及「學校規模在13-24班」背景之行政人員，較能明確感受校長空間領導的推展作為。 四、不同行政處室的同仁在知覺校長空間領導尚無差異。 五、「年齡51歲以上」、「專任主任」、「服務年資超過21年者」、「行政年資16-20年」之行政人員在組織承諾的各面向上表現均較佳。 六、臺中市國民小學校長空間領導與行政人員組織承諾有中度正向關聯。 七、校長空間領導之作為能預測行政人員組織承諾情形。 八、校長空間領導與行政人員組織承諾之結構方程模式適配程度良好。 最後，根據研究結論提出相關建議，俾供教育行政主管機關、國民小學校長與後續學術研究之參考。Abstract The purpose of this study is to learn the relationships between the principal space leadership and the administrative staff’s organizational commitment in elementary school of Taichung City. To investigate the perceptions of elementary school administrative staff on the correlations between the two variables mentioned above. To achieve the goal above, the study adopted questionnaire survey, data were collected from 112 elementary schools, and we retrieved 572 from 704 questionnaires. The response rate of the questionnaire was 81% with the usable rate 90.2% from 514 useable ones. All data were analyzed by the methods of descriptive statistics, independent t-test, one-way ANOVA and SEM. According to the results, this study reached the following conclusions: 1.The level of space leadership of principals in Taichung City is high and the performance in “Setting up the space vision”. 2.The level of organizational commitment of school administrative staff in elementary school is high, and the “Hard-working attitude” is outstanding. 3.Highest level of education, current position and school size of administrative staffs’ show difference on the principal space leadership. 4.Age, current position, total seniorities and administrative seniorities will affect staffs attitude toward organizational commitment. 5.The office which administrative staff works will not affect their attitude toward the principal space leadership. 6.There were positive relationships between principal space leadership and organizational commitment. 7.The proper fit of structural equation model between principal’s space leadership and organizational commitment is assessed as positive and could explain the relationship between main variables. Therefore, the principal’s space leadership could positively affect organizational commitment The suggestions were based on the conclusions of the study, and the relevant suggestions were proposed for the educational administration institutions, elementary school principals and future research