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Candidate: Mildred Patricia Howard

Degree of: Doctor of Education

Department: Teaching, Learning, and Leadership

Title: A STUDY OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP AND ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE

Date: Monday, March 15, 2004, 9:30 am - 11:30 am
3306 Sangren

Committee: Dr. Charles Warfield, Chair
Dr. Joseph Morris
Dr. Jianping Shen

Abstract: The research study examined teachers' perspectives on leadership and Organizational Culture in public elementary schools within the state of Michigan. Teachers' responded to more than 90 survey questions from the Leadership Practices Inventory and The Instructional Climate Inventory.

The purpose of the study was to determine if a relationship existed between Transformational Leadership and Organizational Culture. The study also considered school size as an interval variable. Statistical tests used to determine possible relationships included F-Tests, T-Tests and canonical Correlations.

Findings suggested that additional studies were warranted based on particular subscales of Transformational Leadership. Future studies at the middle school or high school level based on school size is also worth consideration. The overall relationship between culture and leadership were proven to be inconclusive. However, small schools were found to be statistically significant at the .05 level of significance for three pairwise leadership comparisons.

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