Alan B. Henkin

TL;DR: This paper investigated relationships between teacher empowerment and interpersonal level trust in the principal and found that teachers who perceived that they were empowered in their work environments had higher levels of interpersonal trust in their principals.

TL;DR: This paper examined the effects of four team-based structures on the organizational commitment of elementary teachers in an urban school district and found that teacher empowerment, school communication, and work autonomy had both direct and indirect effects on commitment to the school.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the relationship between teacher empowerment and commitment to the school and concluded that empowered teachers participate in critical decisions that directly affect teaching and learning, and that empowering teachers may enhance professionalism, facilitate teacher leadership, improve the quality of work life, and enable effective implementation of school reform.

TL;DR: The authors assess preservice teachers' attitudes toward cultural diversity prior to their entry into multicultural education courses at an urban university and find strong support for implementing diversity issues in the classroom, and high levels of agreement with equity beliefs and the social value of diversity.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated relationships between teamwork, trust and teacher team commitment, and found that teamwork was a significant predictor of teacher commitment, while not entirely confirmatory, suggested the importance of trust in the commitment equation.