Organizational Citizenship Behavior in Schools - Examining the Impact and Opportunities Within Educational Systems

Zusatztext 'What makesthis bookspecial! is that Somech and Oplatka draw together the individual and the organisational factors which make up the capacity of a school to become and remain effective and! importantly! point to the need to focus on the cognitive and emotional health of both if children and young people of school age are to receive the high quality education to which all are entitled. Whilst the reader will find no solutions to the continuing quest for raising and sustaining teacher commitment and quality! they will find in this book plenty of important signposts.' - Professor Christopher Day! University of Nottingham! UK Informationen zum Autor Anit Somech is Associate Professor and Head of the Educational Leadership and Policy Department in the Faculty of Education, University of Haifa, Israel. Izhar Oplatka is Professor of Educational Administration and Leadership in the School of Education, Tel Aviv University, Israel. Zusammenfassung This book extends current literature on Organizational Citizenship Behavior in schools. It sets out to critically analyze and examine teachers' OCB from a contextual perspective and to display the concept's uniqueness in the context of school, its dimensions, boundaries, antecedents and consequences from a multi-level perspective. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB): Historical Review 2.Particular Characteristics of the School Organization and the Teaching Profession 3.Teacher OCB: Its Nature! Definitions! and Dimensions4. Facilitators of Teacher OCB5. Inhibitors of Teacher OCB6. Consequences of Teacher OCB7.Developing a Theoretical Model of Teacher Citizenship Behavior 8. Practical Mechanisms and Tools to Promote Teacher Citizenship Behavior (TCB) 9.Future Research Directions

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• Authors: Izhar Oplatka, Oplatka Izhar, Anit Somech, Anit (University of Haifa Somech, Somech Anit
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.04.2018
• EAN: 9781138291041
• ISBN: 978-1-138-29104-1
• No. of pages: 174
• Series: Routledge Research in Education
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; EDUCATION / General, EDUCATION / Administration / General, EDUCATION / Research, EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General, Organization & management of education, teacher training, Educational administration and organization, Philosophy & theory of education, Educational strategies & policy, Philosophy and theory of education, Schools and pre-schools, Educational strategies and policy, EDUCATION / Schools / General