标题:Relationship Between the Innovative Organizational Culture and Teachers’ Competence for Building an Early Childhood Educational Community: The Mediating Effects of Teachers’ Relational Satisfaction with the Principal and Colleagues
摘要:Objectives: To examine the mediating effects of early childhood teachers’ relational satisfaction with the principal and colleagues on the relationship between the innovative organizational culture of early childhood education institutes and teachers’ competence for building an early childhood educational community. Methods: The participants were 590 teachers, and they answered questions from three rating scales. Descriptive analysis, correlations analysis, and regression analysis were conducted on the collected data. Additionally, mediation analysis was conducted using bootstrapping techniques for testing multiple mediators by Hayes’s Process macro for SPSS. Results: First, there were significant correlations between the innovative organizational culture of early childhood education institutes and the teacher’s relationship satisfaction with principal and colleagues and competence for building an early childhood educational community. Second, the teacher’s relationship satisfaction with colleagues had a partial mediating effect on the relationship between the innovative organizational culture of the institutes and the teacher’s competence for building an early childhood educational community. Conclusions: The results of this study provide suggestions for supporting a formation of an innovative organizational culture and enhancing teachers’ relationship satisfaction with colleagues for building an early childhood educational community.