Organizational Ethics and Teachers' Intent to Leave: An Integrative Approach

Autor/inn/en	Shapira-Lishchinsky, Orly; Rosenblatt, Zehava
Titel	Organizational Ethics and Teachers' Intent to Leave: An Integrative Approach
Quelle	In: Educational Administration Quarterly, 45 (2009) 5, S.725-758 (34 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0013-161X
DOI	10.1177/0013161X09347340
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Organizational Climate; Organizational Culture; Teacher Persistence; Secondary School Teachers; Questionnaires; Self Disclosure (Individuals); Teacher Attitudes; Industrial Psychology; Predictor Variables; Schematic Studies; Work Ethic; Israel + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Organisationsklima; Unternehmenskultur; Fragebogen; Lehrerverhalten; Betriebspsychologie; Industriepsychologie; Prädiktor; Schematheorie; Arbeitsethos
Abstract	Purpose: The present study focuses on developing a conceptual framework that explores the relationships between teachers' intent to leave and a spectrum of ethics perceptions. The authors argue that these relationships are mediated by organizational commitment (affective and normative). Research Design: Organizational ethics was measured by teachers' perceptions of ethical climate (caring and formal), organizational justice (distributive and procedural), and tendency to misbehave. Participants were 1,016 schoolteachers from 35 schools affiliated with a secondary-level school network in Israel. Findings: Results of a multilevel analysis reveal direct relationships between intent to leave and dimensions of all three ethical constructs. The mediation effect of affective and normative commitment was full for caring climate and partial for procedural justice and tendency to misbehave. Conclusions: The contribution of this study is the integrative approach to organizational ethics as predicting teachers' intent to leave, an approach rarely taken in previous research. The results may have implications for educational policies that focus on improving ethical perceptions while containing teachers' voluntary turnover. (Contains 2 figures, 3 tables and 1 note.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10