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The Relationship Between Distributed Leadership As Practiced By Principals And The Organizational Commitment Of Teachers, Gregory Edmond Jacobs
The Relationship Between Distributed Leadership As Practiced By Principals And The Organizational Commitment Of Teachers, Gregory Edmond Jacobs
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The purpose of this study is to determine the degree of the relationship between distributed leadership as perceived by teachers and the affective commitment of teachers. Participants in this study were administered an instrument containing two surveys, the revised Affective Commitment Scale (ACS) (Allen & Meyer, 1990) and the Leadership Density Inventory (LDI) (Smith, Ross, & Robichaux, 2004). The ACS was used to assess the participants' level of affective commitment, and the LDI was used to measure the practice of distributed leadership in the participants' schools. The surveys were distributed to teachers in fifteen schools located in four school districts …