Abstract
I examined the effect of school leaders’ charisma on a teacher’s readiness for change mediated through the teacher’s perspective-taking—a social cognitive trait of seeing another’s viewpoint. Study participants were 1,195 teachers working in 95 state elementary schools in the Israeli public-school system at the outset of a large-scale organizational change termed “New Horizon”—a top-down reform that includes changes in teachers’ work and professional development, and in principals’ discretion and autonomy. Using multilevel structural equation modeling, results indicated significant positive relationships between charismatic school leaders and a teacher’s readiness for change through the effects of his/her perspective-taking.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 28-52 |
Number of pages | 25 |
Journal | Journal of Research on Leadership Education |
Volume | 19 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Mar 2024 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© The University Council for Educational Administration 2023.
Keywords
- charismatic leadership
- perspective-taking
- readiness for change
- reform
- social cognitive trait