Principals' transformational leadership and teachers' collective efficacy.
The study was designed to test the relationship of principals' transformational, transactional, and laissez-faire leadership with teachers' collective efficacy. Bandura's theory of efficacy applied to the group and Bass's transformational leadership theory were used as the theoretical framework. Participants included 487 French Canadian teachers from 40 public high schools. As expected, there were positive and significant correlations between principals' transformational and transactional leadership and teachers' collective efficacy. Also, there was a negative and significant correlation between laissez-faire leadership and teachers' collective efficacy. Moreover, regression analysis showed transformational leadership significantly enhanced the predictive capabilities of transactional leadership on teachers' collective efficacy. These results confirm the importance of leadership to predict collective efficacy and, by doing so, strengthen Bass's theory of leadership.
Dussault
Marc
M
Université du Québec i Trois-Rivières, C.P. 500, Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada G9A 5H7. Marc.Dussault@uqtr.ca
Payette
Daniel
D
Leroux
Mathieu
M
D000124:Achievement; D000288:Administrative Personnel / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D000328:Adult; D001290:Attitude; D003625:Data Collection; D004526:Efficiency; D005260:Female; D006126:Group Processes; D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D008297:Male; D008960:Models, Psychological; D011336:Probability; D012044:Regression Analysis; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013663:Teaching / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*