Investigation of the relationship between organizational health and organizational commitment with positive attitude toward change among primary school principals of Tehran city

Abstract

The present research aims at determining the relationship between organizational health and organizational commitment with positive view toward organizational change. Participants of the study include all principals of Tehran primary schools among which 386 teachers were selected by stratified sampling. Allen and Myer organizational health questionnaire was used to measure organizational commitment including emotional commitment, constant commitment and normative commitment and every dimension has 8 questions. To measure positive attitude, school organizational health questionnaire was used including institutional, official and technical dimensions. To measure the attitude toward organizational change, Donham questionnaire was used including 18 questions. This questionnaire has emotional, cognitive and behavioral indices and each index has 6 questions. Statistical analyses in this study include Pearson correlation, multi-variable regression (stepwise). The results showed that there is a relationship between organizational health and the attitude toward change among head  teachers of Tehran primary  schools. There is a relationship between sub-scales of organizational health and positive attitude toward change among head  teachers of Tehran primary schools. A relationship also was found between organizational commitment and the attitude  toward change among head  teachers of Tehran primary schools. Finally  there is a relationship between sub-scales of organizational commitment and sub-scales of attitude toward change among head  teachers of Tehran primary schools. Generally it is concluded that there is a  positive relationship between organizational health and organizational commitment with attitude toward change among principals.