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Teacher‐principal relationships: Exploring linkages between empowerment and interpersonal trust
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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.Abstract:
Purpose – To investigate relationships between teacher empowerment and interpersonal level trust in the principal.Design/methodology/approach – Trust is a fundamental element in well‐functioning organizations. Studies of empowerment, a motivational construct, have suggested that empowering employees is a key factor in managerial and organizational effectiveness. An instrument was constructed to measure perceived teacher empowerment and level of interpersonal trust in the principal. Established measures of psychological empowerment and affect‐and cognition‐based trust were adapted for use in the study. Elementary school teachers in an urban school district in the USA completed the survey instrument.Findings – Teachers who perceived that they were empowered in their work environments had higher levels of interpersonal trust in their principals. Teachers who found their work personally meaningful, and who reported significant autonomy and substantial influence in their work environments had higher levels of ...read more
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Taking Stock: A review of more than twenty years of research on empowerment at work
Abstract: Today, more than 70 per cent of organizations have adopted some kind of empowerment initiative for at least part of their workforce (Lawler et al., 2001). To be successful in today’s global business environment, companies need the knowledge, ideas, energy, and creativity of every employee, from front line workers to the top level managers in the executive suite. The best organizations accomplish this by empowering their employees to take initiative without prodding, to serve the collective interests of the company without being micro-managed, and to act like owners of the business (O’Toole and Lawler, 2006). So what do we know about empowerment in work organizations? In this chapter, I will conduct an in-depth review of the literature on empowerment at work. I start by framing the two classic approaches to empowerment – social-structural and psychological – before outlining the current state of the literature. I then close the chapter by discussing key debates in the field and emergent directions for future research.
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Empowering leadership: An examination of mediating mechanisms within a hierarchical structure
TL;DR: In this article, data on leader behaviors and follower responses were collected from superior-subordinate dyads in 179 public high schools and found that empowering leadership was associated with higher employee performance and satisfaction, as well as reduced dysfunctional resistance.
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Psychological empowerment and its relationship to trust in immediate managers.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the relationship between overall psychological empowerment, as well as its four aspects (meaning, impact, self-determination, and competence) and bank managers' cognition and affect-based trust in their immediate managers.
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Faculty trust in the principal: an essential ingredient in high-performing schools
TL;DR: The authors explored the relationships among faculty trust in the principal, principal leadership behaviors, school climate, and student achievement and found that faculty trust was related to perceptions of both collegial and instructional leadership, as well as factors of school climate such as teacher professionalism, academic press, and community engagement.
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Are Principal Background and School Processes Related to Teacher Job Satisfaction? A Multilevel Study Using Schools and Staffing Survey 2003-04
TL;DR: The authors found that 17% of the total variance in teacher job satisfaction is between schools, a statistically significant amount that indicates schools can make a difference in teacher's job satisfaction, and that school processes, particularly career and working conditions, staff collegiality, administrative support, and to a lesser extent, positive student behavior and teacher empowerment, are positively associated with teacher's overall job satisfaction.
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