Masoumeh Pourrajab

The resistance to change in implementation of total quality management (TQM) in Iranian schools

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify the level of resistance to change in implementation of total quality management (TQM) in Iranian schools and investigate the influence of principals’ and teachers’ gender and years of experience on resistance to change. Design/methodology/approach – This study presents the results of survey research carried out in Iran. The participants of this study are secondary school principals and teachers. The researchers employed descriptive analysis on data collected. Independent sample t-test was used to determine the difference in resistance to change based on teachers and principals gender, and one-way ANOVA and Kruskal-Wallis H-test were applied to determine the difference in resistance of teachers and principals based on years of experience. Findings – The researchers found that the level of resistance to change in Iranian schools is medium; the most important factor for resistance to change is confidence in the status quo. Gender has an effect on resistance ...

Educational Administrators’ Performance andOrganizational Health: Key Factors for SustainableDevelopment in High Schools

The term organizational health has been widely discussed by administrators, employers and academic institutions in the past fifty years. The present article is a part of a correlation research which was been carried out to study the relationship between the performance of the educational administrators and the organizational health to obtain Sustainable Development in Iranian high schools in Tehran, Iran. The sampling method was cluster sampling and the sample size was 180 teachers. The research instrumentation consists of two questionnaires: the school organizational health and the administrator performance. The research data was analyzed in the quantitative level by using inferential and descriptive statistics, and for describing the variables the Pearson correlation coefficient and coefficient of determination were used. Findings show that there is positive and significant relationship between organizational health and the performance of the principals. The results of the study also indicate that there is a relationship between organizational health with the principal performance in the areas of education and teaching programs, student and staff affairs.