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International Journal of Academic Research in Progressive Education and Development

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ISSN: 2226-6348

The Effects of a School Supervisor’s Leadership Style on Organizational Effectiveness: Application of Distal Mediators

Yu-Je Lee

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The main purpose of this study is to verify the effects of a school supervisor’s leadership style on organizational effectiveness, with organizational culture and organizational change being the mediators. A questionnaire-based survey was conducted on full-time teachers holding lecturer or higher-level positions at a particular Taiwanese technological university. After using simple random sampling to yield knowledge from the population and sending out copies of questionnaire via mail, convenience sampling was adopted to avoid excessively low response rates. The overall model’s goodness-of-fit effect concerning the structural and measurement models were verified using linear Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). Regarding the path coefficients for implicit/unobservable variables in the structural model, the MacKinnon PRODCLIN 2 program was employed to test how significant the model’s total effect, specific mediating effects and direct effects are. Research results showed that: (1) the overall model has a statistically significant total effect, which suggests a distal mediating effect in the model constructed by the author; (2) the supervisor’s leadership style exerts a significantly direct effect on organizational effectiveness; (3) both organizational culture and organizational change exert significant and practically the same specific mediating effects

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In-Text Citation: (Yu-Je, 2013)
To Cite this Article: Yu-Je, L. (2013) The Effects of a School Supervisor’s Leadership Style on Organizational Effectiveness: Application of Distal Mediators. International Journal of Academic Research in Progressive Education & Development. 2(4), 105-133.