Azam Pahlevan Sadegh; Bijan Abdollahi; Abdolrahim Naveh Ebrahim; HasanReza Zeinabadi
Volume 3, Issue 10 , December 2015, , Pages 17-38
Abstract
The main objective of this study is designing and explaining of professional learning community model in higher education system. Transformational leadership, organizational culture, organizational structure, and professional learning community instruments were executed on 226 faculty members (from 351 ...
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The main objective of this study is designing and explaining of professional learning community model in higher education system. Transformational leadership, organizational culture, organizational structure, and professional learning community instruments were executed on 226 faculty members (from 351 faculty members) of colleges of management of public universities of Tehran in the year 1393-94. The sampling method was two-stage cluster sampling method and then targeted available. Analysis showed accepted reliability and validity for instruments. This research used correlation method. The structural equation method contained one exogenous latent construct transformational leadership; and 3 endogenous latent constructs organizational culture, organizational structure, and professional learning community. The study demonstrated transformational leadership had significant and direct effect on organizational culture (γ=0/61), on organizational structure (γ=0/82), on professional learning community (γ=0/39), indirect and significant effect of organizational culture on organizational structure (β=-0/08), and direct and significant effect of organizational culture on professional learning community (β=0/72), and nonsignificant effect of organizational structure on professional learning community. Results showed transformational leadership that is idealized influence, inspirational motivation, individualized consideration, had direct effect on organizational culture i.e. solidarity and fixation, and communication patterns, and on organizational structure i.e. organic, and clearness of hierarchical organizational, and high supervision and control, and on professional learning community that is collective responsibility for student's learning, collaboration focused on professional learning. And so organizational culture had direct effect on professional learning community and also both of two constructs had direct effects on formation of university as professional learning community.
