A study of principals’ change leadership core competence of elementary schools in Central Part of Taiwan.

[[abstract]]本研究旨在探討國民小學校長變革領導核心能力之現況，並分析不同背景變項之教師知覺校長變革領導核心能力之差異情形。本研究採用「國民小學校長變革領導核心能力之研究調查問卷」，以中部地區四縣市任職國民小學校長與教師為研究樣本，統計方法採描述性統計、t考驗、單因子變異數分析，將所得資料予以處理分析得到若干研究結果，並根據本研究文獻探討及研究結果，歸納整理以下結論： 一、國小校長之主要角色包含：（1）行政領導者、（2）課程教學領導者、（3）公共關係營造者、（4）組織文化塑造者、（5）教育專業者、（6）變革領導者。 二、校長變革領導之相關內涵為：「建立危機意識」；「塑造組織願景」；「營造支持環境」；「組成變革團隊」；「評鑑變革成果」；「形塑組織文化」；核心能力包括：生理、靈性、創意、情緒、智力與道德六大商數。。 三、整體而言，中部地區國小校長變革領導之核心能力具備情形呈現中高程度。 四、中部地區國小教師知覺校長變革領導核心能力具備情形受「職務」、「年齡」、「服務總年資」等個人背景變項之影響而具有顯著差異，但在「性別」方面則無顯著差異。 五、國小教師知覺校長變革領導核心能力具備情形不受「學校地區」與「學校規模」等學校背景變項之影響。 最後，本研究根據上述研究結論，提出具體建議，提供教育行政機關、國民小學校長及未來相關研究之參考。[[abstract]]The purpose of this study was to figure out the practice of principals’ change leadership core competence, analyze the resons that affect principals’ change leadership core competence. “Questionnaire of principals’change leadership core competence” was used to survey elementary school principals’ and teachers in Central Part of Taiwan. The collected data was analysed by SPSS 12.0, the statistical methods included descriptive analysis, t-test, one-way ANOVA. As result from the anaysis of this study, the following conclusions were made： 1. The main roles of elementary principal are (1) The leadership of administration. (2) The leadership of curriculum and instruction. (3) The shaper of public relationship. (4)The shaper of organization culture. (5) The education professionals. (6) The change leader. 2. The nature of principals’ change leadership included : (1) Establish the sense of crisis consciousness. (2) Building the organizational vision. (3) Building the supporting environment. (4) Making up the change team. (5) To evaluation the change result. (6) Building the organization culture. The core competence included : (1)Physical quotient (2) Spiritual quotient. (3) Creative quotient. (4) Emotional quotient. (5) Intelligence quotient. (6) Moral quotient. 3. The degree of principals’ change leadership core competence by elementary school teachers in central Taiwan were at upper middle levels. 4. The teachers’ perceptions of principals’ change leadership core competence significantly by job, age, and year of service except of sex. 5. The teachers’ perceptions of principals’ change leadership core competence are not significant by variables of city and size. Based on the study results, some suggestions were proposed for the reference of educational administrative authorities, principals of elementary schools and future researchers.[[note]]碩