Translating Team-Member Exchange Relationships to School Effectiveness: The Mediating Role of Leader-Member Exchange

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  In Roundtable Session: School Effectiveness and School Improvement Round Table #1 (Table 15)

Abstract

Relying on the principles of social exchange theory, the study is aimed at investigating the impact of team-member exchange relationships (TMX) among school management team (SMT) members on school effectiveness via the mediating role of leader-member exchange (LMX) relationships between principals and SMTs.
Data were collected from multiple sources in 86 elementary and junior high schools. The results revealed a positive relationship between TMX and teachers' job satisfaction and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB). LMX partially mediated the relationship between TMX and OCB and between TMX and teachers' job satisfaction. Full mediation was found in TMX-innovation relationship. The findings stress the importance of developing and maintaining high-quality horizontal and vertical exchange relationships among SMT members for their positive influence on school effectiveness.

Authors

• Ronit Bogler, The Open University of Israel

• Anit Somech, University of Haifa

• Dalia Birani-Nasraldin, University of Haifa