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Leadership Storytelling: How Elementary School Principals Use Storytelling To Lead And Make Transformational Change, Nicholas Damico
Leadership Storytelling: How Elementary School Principals Use Storytelling To Lead And Make Transformational Change, Nicholas Damico
Dissertations
Purpose: The purpose of this phenomenological study was to understand and describe
how exemplary elementary school principals use storytelling to lead organizations
using Denning’s (2011) model. In addition, it was the purpose to understand how
exemplary elementary school principals use storytelling to create transformational
change in organizations. Denning’s The Leader’s Guide to Storytelling highlights eight storytelling narrative patterns:
- Storytelling to ignite action and implement new ideas
- Storytelling to build trust
- Storytelling to build brand
- Storytelling to transmit organizational values
- Storytelling to foster collaboration
- Storytelling to share knowledge
- Storytelling to neutralize rumor
- Storytelling to share your vision
Methodology: This …
The Influence Of Self-Efficacy On Job Satisfaction In New Jersey Public School Principals, Kerry L. Postma
The Influence Of Self-Efficacy On Job Satisfaction In New Jersey Public School Principals, Kerry L. Postma
Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)
This quantitative, descriptive, correlational study sought to describe the nature of the relationship between the self-efficacy of school principals and their job satisfaction. The data were obtained from an online survey sent to all New Jersey public school principals. A total of 822 principals participated in the study. The independent variables included demographic characteristics of respondents and principal self-efficacy as measured by the Principal Self-Efficacy Scale (Tschannen-Moran & Gareis, 2004). The dependent variable was principal job satisfaction, as measured by the Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire Short-Form (Weiss, Dawis, England, & Lofquist, 1967). The analyses of the data were completed using simultaneous …