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Volume 2 Issue 7 pp. 2377-2382, 2012

Authors: Mohammad Reza Iravani, Seyed Esmael Mosavi, Amin Movahedi, Gholamali Iravani, Akbar Iravani

📋 Author Affiliations:
Mohammad Reza Iravani ORCID 1, Seyed Esmael Mosavi2, Amin Movahedi3, Gholamali Iravani ORCID 4, Akbar Iravani ORCID 5
1 Department of Social Work, Islamic Azad University of Khomeinishahr, Khomeinishahr Branch, Daneshjou Blvd, Iran
2 Counseling department, Islamic Azad University of Khomeinishahr, Khomeinishahr Branch, Daneshjou Blvd, Iran
3 Master of Social Work, Iran
4 Applied and Technical University, Iran
5 PameNoor University, Iran & Secretary of Education, District 4, Esfahan, Iran
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🔑 Keywords: Consideration, Initiating structure, Leadership style, Organizational change

Abstract: The primary objective of this survey is to study the relationship between leadership style among teachers who work in high schools and their orientation on organizational change. The study is performed among students who attended guided schools in province of Semnan, Iran. There are five hypotheses associated with the proposed study of this paper including managers & apos; attitudes on change based on demographic characteristics, the relationship between leadership style and organizational change, the effects of different leadership styles and the organizational change orientation in terms of demographical characteristics. Statistical population includes all teachers who for high schools in city of Semnan, Iran and the study used a sample of 373 people who were randomly selected from three regions of the city. The proposed study used standard leadership questionnaire based on initiating structure and consideration originally developed at Ohio university in two dimensions with 30 questions. The questionnaire also used another type questionnaire consists of 32 questions with three dimensions of structure, technology and employee. The results indicate that there is no meaningful relationship between leadership style and gender, leadership style and job experience, organizational change and gender, management change and gender.

How to cite this paper
APA: Iravani, M., Mosavi, S., Movahedi, A., Iravani, G & Iravani, A. (2012). A social work study on relationship between leadership style and organization change: A case study of Semnan high schools' teachers. Management Science Letters, 2(7), 2377-2382.
Chicago/Turabian: Iravani, M., Mosavi, S., Movahedi, A., Iravani, G & Iravani, A. 2012. "A social work study on relationship between leadership style and organization change: A case study of Semnan high schools' teachers." Management Science Letters 2, no. 7 (2012): 2377-2382.
AMA: Iravani, M., Mosavi, S., Movahedi, A., Iravani, G & Iravani, A. A social work study on relationship between leadership style and organization change: A case study of Semnan high schools' teachers. Management Science Letters. 2012;2(7):2377-2382.

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