Investigate the role of synergistic leadership of school principals and systematic innovation of school organization in organizational entrepreneurship mediated by Organizational ambidexterity and teachers' productive behaviors

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1 PhD in Educational Management, Department of Educational Sciences, Faculty of Literature & Humanities, Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamedan, Iran.

2 Associate professor Department of Educational Sciences, Faculty of Humanities, Shahid Rajaee Teacher Training University, Tehran, Iran.

3 Assistant Professor Department of Educational Sciences, Faculty of Human Sciences, Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamedan, Iran.

10.22034/jsa.2023.62898

Abstract

The aim of the study was to investigate the role of synergistic leadership of school principals and systematic innovation of school organization in organizational entrepreneurship with the mediation of organizational ambidexterity and teachers' productive behaviors. The research population was all the teachers of technical and vocational schools in Tehran province, and a sample of 364 teachers was selected from this population using proportional stratified random sampling based on Cochran's formula. The quantitative research method is correlation studies and covariance-based structural equation modeling approach. In order to collect data from the researcher-made Synergistic leadership questionnaire; the researcher-made Systematic innovation questionnaire; the Organizational ambidexterity questionnaire of Jansen (2006); the researcher-made Teachers' productive behaviors questionnaire; and the Organizational entrepreneurship questionnaire of Hughes & Morgan (2007) were used. The reliability and validity of questionnaires were evaluated by the Cronbach's alpha techniques, content validity ratio, exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis. In order to analyze the data and test the research hypotheses, correlation matrix analysis and structural equation modeling were used by SPSS 25 and LISREL 10.5 software. The results showed that: synergistic leadership and systematic innovation had a direct, positive and significant effect on organizational ambidexterity, teachers' productive behaviors and organizational entrepreneurship. synergistic leadership and systematic innovation had a positive and significant indirect effect on organizational entrepreneurship through organizational ambidexterity and teachers' productive behaviors. The variables of synergistic leadership, systematic innovation, organizational ambidexterity and teachers' productive behaviors were able to explain 0.37 of the variance of organizational entrepreneurship

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School Administration
Volume 12, Issue 1
April 2024
Pages 34-53

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  • Receive Date: 01 June 2023
  • Revise Date: 06 October 2023
  • Accept Date: 08 October 2023

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