Wang Pingping, Deng Xinrui, Li Xiaowei, Dong Yuan, Jiao Runkai
School of Psychology, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China.
Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.
Front Psychol. 2019 Sep 10;10:2015. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02015. eCollection 2019.
Organizational climate refers to an individual's perception and experience of the climate of the work environment, and it is the most important environmental variable that affects individuals' work performance. This study aims to classify characteristics of transformational leadership among kindergarten principals and examine their relationship to organizational climate.
Convenience sampling yielded 498 kindergarten principals who completed the "Questionnaire on the Principal's Transformational Leadership Behavior" and "Questionnaire on Organizational Climate." Ethics approval was obtained from the Academic Ethics Committee of the College of Psychology of Northeast Normal University prior to starting the study.
Three latent classes were identified, including the high-level (68.8%), care-virtues (35.7%), and virtues groups (5.3%). There were significant differences in support, directive, restrictive, colleague, intimate, and disengaged behavior scores between groups. In terms of support, colleague, and intimate behavior, the high-level group had the highest scores, followed by the care-virtues group and virtues group, respectively. Regarding restrictive and disengaged behaviors, the highest scores were received by the virtues group, followed by the care-virtues and high-level group, respectively.
The study suggested that principals' transformational leadership could be classified into three latent classes that are related to organizational climate.
组织氛围是指个人对工作环境氛围的感知和体验，是影响个人工作绩效的最重要的环境变量。本研究旨在对幼儿园园长变革型领导的特征进行分类，并考察其与组织氛围的关系。
采用便利抽样法，选取498名幼儿园园长，他们完成了“园长变革型领导行为问卷”和“组织氛围问卷”。在研究开始前，获得了东北师范大学心理学院学术伦理委员会的伦理批准。
确定了三个潜在类别，包括高水平组（68.8%）、关怀-美德组（35.7%）和美德组（5.3%）。各组在支持、指导、限制、同事、亲密和疏离行为得分上存在显著差异。在支持、同事和亲密行为方面，高水平组得分最高，其次分别是关怀-美德组和美德组。在限制和疏离行为方面，美德组得分最高，其次分别是关怀-美德组和高水平组。
研究表明，园长的变革型领导可以分为与组织氛围相关的三个潜在类别。
