Authentic Leadership: A Study of Schools in the United States and China (Poster 30)

• In Event: AERA Poster Session Sixteen
  In Poster Session: The Teacher-Principal Relationship in the Context of Improving Schools

Abstract

This study examined the relationship between school principals' authentic leadership and their teachers' level of engagement and trust. The sample includes 15 school principals and 71 teachers from the United States as well as 50 school principals and 620 teachers from China. A positive relationship between principals' and teachers' ratings of authentic leadership and teacher’s engagement and trust was reported. Teachers whose principals overestimated their authentic leadership showed lower levels of engagement and trust in comparison to teachers whose principals underestimate their authentic leadership. Chinese school principals reported lower authentic leadership than U.S. principals but Chinese teachers reported higher levels of engagement and trust. Moreover, Chinese teacher’s intention to return to work was also higher than the U.S. teachers.

Authors

• Chuang Wang, University of North Carolina - Charlotte
  Presenting Author

• Dawson R. Hancock, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
  Presenting Author

• Ulrich Müller, Pädagogische Hochschule Ludwigsburg, University of Education
  Presenting Author

• Jianzhong Xu, Mississippi State University
  Non-Presenting Author

• Tobias Bernd Stricker, Pädagogische Hochschule Ludwigsburg, Institut für Bildungsmanagement
  Non-Presenting Author

• Leonardo Herrera-Mosquera, University of North Carolina - Charlotte
  Non-Presenting Author

• Lan Liu
  Presenting Author