TY  - JOUR
AB  - Purpose The study aims to test an innovative model that explores the direct and indirect relationships between principals' innovative behavior, climate of organizational learning and a teacher's intent to leave his or her school and take a voluntary absence.Design/methodology/approach Data were collected from a survey of 1,529 teachers from 107 Arab elementary schools randomly selected from the database of the Israeli educational system. To test the proposed multilevel model, we conducted multilevel structural equation modeling (ML-SEM).Findings The analysis confirmed that organizational learning climate is a prominent mediator between principals' innovative behavior and a teacher's intent to leave and his/her voluntary absence.Originality/value This research advances our understanding of leaders' innovative construct in an educational context and adds to the body of research directed at identifying administrative support and work-related factors that may negatively relate to a teacher's absenteeism or intent to leave and are amenable to leadership intervention.
VL  - 34
IS  - 8
SN  - 0951-354X
DO  - 10.1108/IJEM-12-2019-0449
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/IJEM-12-2019-0449
AU  - Da'as Rima'a
AU  - Watted Abeer
AU  - Barak Miri
PY  - 2020
Y1  - 2020/01/01
TI  - Teacher's withdrawal behavior: examining the impact of principals' innovative behavior and climate of organizational learning
T2  - International Journal of Educational Management
PB  - Emerald Publishing Limited
SP  - 1339
EP  - 1355
Y2  - 2024/05/10
ER  -