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The international journal of educational management
MCB University Press
The international journal of educational management

MCB University Press

0951-354X

The international journal of educational management/Journal The international journal of educational management
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    Online education – bane or boon? A quantitative plus text mining approach

    Arpita GhoshPradipta Patra
    1801-1820页
    查看更多>>摘要：Purpose The COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath sent the entire educational system across the globe topsy-turvy. Virtual classrooms, online lectures and online evaluations became the order of the day, replacing traditional face to face classroom interactions and examinations conducted physically. While it may be possible to reach out to a larger audience in remote places via online platforms, the new medium lacks personal touch of the past, and is known to cause physical and psychological problems for participants. This study collects primary data from a representative sample of students from emerging economies to study the factors that influence intention to pursue online education.Design/methodology/approach ANOVA, Kruskal–Wallis test, exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and multiple linear regression (MLR) have been used to test our hypothesis. We have also used text mining to corroborate statistical test results and ascertain the sentiment of students towards online learning.Findings This study not only confirms findings in extant literature that “benefits” is an important factor. It also identifies new factors such as “health”, “evaluation”, “class duration” and “student qualification”, that influence student intention to pursue online education. Sentiment analysis shows that students have positive sentiment coupled with trust towards online education. Text mining shows that “mode of class”, “time or duration of class” and “quality of learning” are important features that students consider.Originality/value This is one of the few studies to use quantitative plus text mining method of research to understand intention to pursue online education.
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    The impact of digital transformation on achieving outstanding performance in educational administration

    Nadjet KhatirHassiba Madani
    1821-1838页
    查看更多>>摘要：Purpose The present study aims to analyze the impact of digital transformation on achieving outstanding performance in educational administration, improving and developing electronic services and facilitating beneficiaries’ access to services.Design/methodology/approach This study applied descriptive/analytical quantitative and qualitative methodologies to a sample of 206 employees from an educational administration. Confirmatory inferential analysis was conducted to investigate the relationship and mutual impact between the variables under examination by Structural Equation Modeling requirements.Findings The study found that the model effectively explained the phenomenon being studied with digital transformation efforts in infrastructure, human resources and culture, as hypothesized. However, an unexpected negative relationship was found between the transformation strategy and outstanding performance. Interviews with the participants confirmed gradual improvements in various aspects of the digital transformation.Practical implications This study underscores the immediate and tangible benefits of transitioning from traditional to advanced electronic governments. This transformation is necessary and highly advantageous, as it bolsters the administration’s ability to meet technical, professional and human requirements, elevating the educational system’s overall performance.Originality/value This study stands out for its unique focus on digital transformation as an independent variable, a perspective evaluated using four indicators. The study’s exploration of how these factors influence the performance of the directorate of education is a significant contribution to the field. The study’s approach saves time, effort and money and enhances employee performance and task completion speed with good quality and efficiency, thereby improving services for the educational system’s beneficiaries.
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    From mindset to market: unveiling the nexus of cognition, behavior and environment in igniting students’ E-entrepreneurial intentions

    Manisha ChaudharyAbhijeet Biswas
    1839-1861页
    查看更多>>摘要：Purpose India has witnessed a significant surge in internet users in recent years, creating an ideal environment for E-entrepreneurship. With the rise of E-commerce and the growth of the digital economy, there is tremendous potential for online businesses in developing nations. Our study outlines the behavioral, cognitive, and environmental aspects shaping students' E-entrepreneurial intentions (EEI).Design/methodology/approach Our study incorporated structural equation modeling (SEM), social cognitive theory (SCT), and entrepreneurial event model (EEM) to evaluate the EEI of 460 students from India's top five engineering institutes. The direct and indirect linkages in the model were examined by employing mediation and moderation analysis.Findings Our findings reveal that behavioral, environmental, and cognitive factors facilitate evaluating feasibility, further igniting students' EEI. The cognitive factors and E-entrepreneurial feasibility (EEF) mediate the relationship between the underlying constructs. Furthermore, financial resource availability (FRA) strengthens, and loss aversion bias(LAB) weakens the linkage between EEF and EEM.Research limitations/implications The study's findings may benefit online innovation communities, potential technopreneurs, financial institutions, and policymakers in improving the entrepreneurial ecosystem.Originality/value The study integrates psychological and sociological perspectives to understand the key facilitators of EEF and EEI. The study combines SCT and the EEM by appending crucial constructs such as FRA and LAB to broaden the horizons of EEI.
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    Mediating role of capabilities in organisational agility-performance relationship in J&K, India

    Hardeep ChahalAiyushi Gupta
    1862-1883页
    查看更多>>摘要：Purpose This study examines the impact of organisational agility on the performance of higher education institutions. It also aims to explore the mediating role of various capabilities, namely, service innovation, technology capability, learning capability, and collaborative knowledge creation, in the agility-performance relationship.Design/methodology/approach The sample of this study includes teaching staff of two prominent state universities of J&K, India. The study employs Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) and Structured Equation Modelling (SEM) for scale purification and hypotheses testing.Findings The results show that organisational agility positively influences performance of higher education institutions. Capabilities, namely, service innovation, technology capability, learning capability and collaborative knowledge creation, partially mediate the organisational agility-performance relationship.Research limitations/implications The sample comprises teaching staff of two established universities of J&K, India.Practical implications For sustenance in the turbulent environment, higher educational institutions should employ practices like regular modification of academic programs, increasing the speed of logistics activities, investing in high-ended software and hardware facilities, and developing an open environment for the exchange of ideas by employees. Policy formulation should encourage adopting agile practices in higher education institutions for enhanced performance.Originality/value This paper focuses specifically on organisational agility and its impact on the performance of higher educational institutions. The study contributes to the agility literature by testing the mediating roles of service innovation, technology capability, learning capability and collaborative knowledge creation collectively in the relationship between organisational agility and performance, concluding that all these capabilities except service innovation enhance the effect of organisational agility on performance.
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    Balancing work and life in academia: unraveling the employee engagement mystery

    Mukul TiwariManish Kumar SrivastavaA.S. SureshVinod Sharma...
    1884-1902页
    查看更多>>摘要：Purpose This study aims to further the understanding of employees’ engagement by explaining their organizational commitment through their perception of the availability of work-life benefits in the organization. This study also investigates the mediating role of job satisfaction in this context.Design/methodology/approach The model was tested on the primary data collected in two phases from 270 teaching professionals in higher education institutes in Northern India. Barren and Kenny’s algorithm and hierarchical regression analysis were used to test the hypotheses.Findings The results reveal that employees’ perception of work-life benefits strongly influences their organizational commitment. Also, the results support that employees’ job satisfaction mediates the above-mentioned relationship.Research limitations/implications Self-reported data could be considered as a key limitation of this study and for more accurate results supervisors’ (line managers) perspective could also be included in future studies. Also, in addition to perceived work-life benefits, supervisors’ support could also have an impact on employees’ commitment, thus its inclusion in the model could draw a clearer picture.Originality/value This research has two key contributions: first, it adds to the limited literature examining the employees’ engagement issues in the academic sector. Second, this research is one of, if not the first, to investigate perceived work-life benefits among third-level teaching staff in India to explain employees’ commitment to their organizations.
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    Critical issues of online learning management in higher educational institutions in a developing country context: examples from Ghana

    Patrick Yin MahamaFred Amankwah-SarfoFrancis Gyedu
    1903-1924页
    查看更多>>摘要：Purpose Online learning has come to stay in a technologically advancing world with increasing populations. The search for ways to make online learning more efficient and effective in some developing countries continues as the accompanying issues in developing country contexts abound. This paper explores the issues that underlie online learning management in a developing country context, focusing on the Moodle, Sakai and Zoom platforms used in some selected public universities in Ghana.Design/methodology/approach The study relied on the qualitative approach to data collection and a descriptive design for analysis. Using the social constructivism theory, the paper discussed the critical issues students, and to a lesser extent, instructors encounter in their engagement on these platforms for academic learning.Findings The study found that the inefficient use of these platforms is due to several factors including the high cost of data, poor perception of the quality of online learning compared to traditional in-person contacts, poor attitude of students, low participation in online learning, lack of computers and poor internet connectivity among others.Research limitations/implications It is important to mention that this study was limited to some selected public universities in Ghana. Data could have been collected from a wider sample including other Ghanaian tertiary institutions or some other developing countries. The similarity of study outcomes in other developing countries, however, suggests that similar results would have been obtained in an international sample.Practical implications Despite the robustness of the Learning Management systems in place, the evidence suggests that their utilisation is far less than optimal. However, with relevant policies and the provision of needed technical support, training, provision of equipment like computers for use by both students and instructors and efficient internet connectivity, the LMS platforms could be more efficient for online learning.Originality/value The authors conducted this research using original data from interviews in the selected public universities in Ghana. The data was meant to inform the discussion on some of the critical issues that underlie online learning in a developing country context. Although the study relied on data from selected public universities in a single country, its outcomes reflect fundamental issues of online learning in a developing country context which find relevance in available study outcomes.
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    Under the shadows of COVID-19: school principals’ leadership odyssey

    Fozia Ahmed BalochNazir Ahmed Jogezai
    1925-1943页
    查看更多>>摘要：Purpose The COVID-19 pandemic, as well as its effects on education in general, has influenced the leadership landscape of school principals, which may have necessitated adaptations and transitions in their leadership orientation. To better comprehend any variations in the leadership orientation of school principals in response to the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic, this study examines leadership orientation in both the pre-pandemic and post-pandemic periods.Design/methodology/approach In this quantitative research, the authors collected data from 297 school principals in the Balochistan province of Pakistan using the leadership orientation survey (LOS) in a quantitative research approach.Findings The results indicated that principals’ leadership orientation underwent an observable transition before and after the pandemic. Principals’ preferred leadership orientation notably changed from solely political before the pandemic to a combination of highly political and symbolic after the pandemic.Research limitations/implications Using a survey, the study investigated the transition in school principals’ leadership orientation before and after the pandemic. However, the results do not explain what caused the transition in principals’ leadership orientation, which is the key limitation of this study. Future research within a qualitative approach can study the factors associated with changes in principles’ leadership frames.Practical implications The overall findings of the study have implications for scholars, policymakers and educational leaders to reexamine and gain a deeper understanding of the leadership roles of principals in the post-pandemic age. This is because principals now operate in a distinct context characterized by new difficulties and opportunities compared to the pre-pandemic period.Originality/value This is an original study that examined the transition of school principals’ leadership orientation before and after the pandemic. The body of literature related to the transition between pre- and post-pandemic is limited both in Pakistan and the rest of the world. This study illuminates the literature in this regard.
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    The effect of flexible working arrangements on educator performance in Indonesia

    Habibullah JimadRoslina RoslinaYuningsih Yuningsih
    1944-1958页
    查看更多>>摘要：Purpose This study aims to investigate the implementation of flexible working arrangements and satisfaction, family work conflicts and the performance of educators. The potential benefits of FWA implementation for life balance highlight the importance of this research. The study’s results can be used as study material to make policies on implementing FWA for educators.Design/methodology/approach The research uses the survey method and conducts interviews with educators who are selected and willing to be interviewed. The research sample was taken by the non-probability sampling method from 245 participants. The analysis used is PLS-SEM.Findings The findings indicated that flexible working arrangements had no impact on job satisfaction. The variable that has the greatest influence on determining the performance of educators is job satisfaction.Originality/value The study provides information about the application of flexible working arrangements, provides flexibility for educators to change work schedules, do work from anywhere, regulate work patterns and regulate work duration. This study is unique as it focuses more on flexible work arrangements related to remote work arrangements for educators, as the authors understand that no previous study was conducted.
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    Teachers’ understandings of the anger they feel toward their principals: a phenomenographic study

    Gökhan ÖzaslanSümeyranur Meryem Karakuzu ÖlemezSultan Polatİlker Berat Balıkcı...
    1959-1974页
    查看更多>>摘要：Purpose The purpose of this study is to reveal the different ways in which a group of teachers understand the anger they feel toward the school principals with whom they interact.Design/methodology/approach The present study was designed and conducted as a phenomenography. In phenomenographic research, the number of different ways in which participants understand a particular phenomenon is revealed. The data from semi-structured interviews with 15 teachers who differed in terms of school level, gender and age were analyzed according to the phenomenographic tradition.Findings The analysis revealed that although the participants had eight different understandings of the anger in question, all participants had an understanding that was described as “An emotion arising from not being treated with the respect we deserve.”Practical implications The source of anger for the participating teachers was the behavior of their principals, which made them feel that they were not considered respectable and valuable. Incorporating this insight into the training of school leaders may lead to useful outcomes in improving the quality of interactions between principals and teachers.Originality/value As one of the few examples of phenomenographic research in educational management, the present study contributes to providing a solid foundation for exploring the anger that teachers feel toward their principals by showing how and in what ways participating teachers may understand this feeling.
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    Self-efficacy of school principals for effective school functioning during the COVID-19 crisis

    Mowafaq Qadach
    1975-1989页
    查看更多>>摘要：Purpose The current study seeks first to examine the prediction of school functioning in crises during the COVID-19 pandemic by school principals’ self-efficacy; second, to explore the differences in all dimensions of self-efficacy and school functioning during crises in Arab and Jewish schools in Israel and third, to determine which of school principals’ self-efficacy dimensions best predicted school functioning during the COVID-19 crisis.Design/methodology/approach Data were aggregated at the school level for structural equation modeling (SEM) analysis using AMOS analysis of 103 middle schools across Israel, 53 from Jewish and 50 from Arab society. Participants included 103 school principals (who answered the school principals’ self-efficacy questionnaire) and 1,031 teachers who answered the school functioning during crises questionnaire (477 Jewish teachers and 554 Arab teachers).Findings The findings showed that the principals’ self-efficacy positively predicted school functioning during the crisis. Among the five self-efficacy dimensions (general management efficacy, leadership efficacy, human relations efficacy, efficacy in managing external relations and pedagogical management efficacy), significant differences were found only in “external relations efficacy,” which was higher for “Arab” school principals; the only dimension that predicted school functioning during crises in both societies was “human relations efficacy.”Originality/value The current results emphasize the importance of principals’ self-efficacy in general and specifically caring leadership practices “human relations efficacy” in their relations with the school staff, the students and the parents for effective school coping and functioning during crises in two societies in Israel: Arab and Jewish. Further, no previous studies have explored this correlation.
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