School Cultural Characteristics and Teachers' Burnout: The Dark Side of Participative Management

• In Event: Hilton Roundtable Session 21
  In Roundtable Session: Contemporary Research on Teachers and Principals

Abstract

Emphasis has been placed on participative management as a means to improve teacher outcomes. However, along with the benefits of participative management comes the potential for burnout that stem from work intensification. Applying the Implicit Leadership Theory, we propose that differences in the school cultural attributes of individualism collectivism influence the emergence of participative principals and their influence on teachers’ burnout.
The General Linear Model analysis from a sample of 367 teachers indicated significant differences in the teachers’ perceptions of participative management between schools characterized by different cultural attributes (after controlling for principal gender). Also, significant differences were found between the effects of participative management on teacher burnout across schools with different cultural attributes. Theoretical and practical suggestions are proposed.

Author

• Pascale Sarah Benoliel, Bar-Ilan University