Principals' Boundary Activities and School Violence: The Mediating Role of School Management Teams' Effectiveness

• In Event: 15.060 - MTCC Roundtable Session One
  In Roundtable Session: 15.060-2 - Collaborative Team-Building to Measure Effectiveness

Abstract

The call for a holistic approach to cope with school violence motivated the present study. The proposed model examined the mediating role of school management team effectiveness in the relationship between the organizational-level factors of principals’ internal and external boundary activities and school violence. Data was collected from a survey of 692 school members and 92 principals in Israel. The structural equation model indicated that management team effectiveness mediated the relationship of principals’ internal boundary activities to school violence. Understanding how the principals’ boundary activities enhance SMT effectiveness by facilitating improved knowledge exchange and social relationships is important and may provide a mechanism to decrease school violence. The implications of these findings for both theory and practice are discussed.

Author

• Pascale Sarah Benoliel, Bar-Ilan University