Title: Linking school effectiveness and principals' transformational leadership: the role of school culture

Authors: Chin-Yen Lin, Tsung-Hsien Kuo

Addresses: College of Humanities and Sciences, National Taipei University of Technology, 1, Sec. 3, Chung-hsiao E. Rd., Taipei, Taiwan. ' Institute of Technological and Vocational Education, National Taipei University of Technology, Testing Center, Securities and Futures Institute, 5F, 3 Nan-Hai Rd., 100 Taipei, Taiwan, ROC

Abstract: This study adopts transformational leadership as an antecedent variable to explore and examine its correlation to school culture and school effectiveness. K-means cluster analysis and regression analysis were utilised. Data was collected from 647 school teachers and from 15 schools in Taiwan. Results show that there is a relationship among three dimensions. Limitations of this study are also presented.

Keywords: school effectiveness; school culture; transformational leadership; management in education; Taiwan; school teachers; school principals.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMIE.2007.015197

International Journal of Management in Education, 2007 Vol.1 No.4, pp.352 - 370

Published online: 21 Sep 2007 *

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