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Principals' Ambidexterity and Creativity-Fostering Teacher Behavior
Sat, April 10, 10:40am to 12:10pm EDT (10:40am to 12:10pm EDT), Division A, Division A - Section 1 Paper and Symposium SessionsAbstract
The current research explores the effect of principals' ambidexterity (the exploitation and exploration of learning activities) on creativity. A model of principals' ambidexterity as predictor of school ambidexterity and organizational support of creativity, further predicting creativity-fostering teacher behavior (CFTB); organizational support of creativity and school ambidexterity as mediators between principals' ambidexterity and CFTB; and organizational support of creativity as mediator between principals' and schools' ambidexterity, was examined for 798 teachers and 71 principals from 71 Arab elementary schools in Israel. Organizational support of creativity emerges as prominent mediator betweenthe principals' ambidexterity and both school ambidexterity and CFTB.