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Principal Self-Efficacy And Learning Organizations: Influencing School Improvement, Kristina A. Hesbol
Principal Self-Efficacy And Learning Organizations: Influencing School Improvement, Kristina A. Hesbol
Educational Leadership and Policy Studies: Faculty Scholarship
One key characteristic of high-performing schools is how they function organizationally, enabling them to enact reforms effectively and to deal with regular organizational ambiguity and chaos. The principal plays a pivotal role in developing a school culture that supports high-performing schools. This research studies the relationship between principal self-efficacy and a principal's perception of her school as a learning organization. We examined specific subcategories of learning organization attitudes and behaviors to determine whether principals consider distinct organizational behaviors a proxy for indicators of a learning organization, and whether that was related to their self-efficacy. The findings indicate that principals must …