PRINCIPALS ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT AND SCHOOL ENVIRONMENTAL ROBUSTNESS

Four hypotheses on principals' organizational commitment and school en vironmental robustness were tested. Teachers and principals in 51 high schools supplied data using two standard measures. To avoid same resp ondent bias, about half of the teacher respondents completed one instr ument, half the other. The unit of analysis was the school. Teacher pe rceptions of their principals' commitment were positively related to s chool robustness, but principals' self-reported commitment was not. Th e congruence of teacher perceptions of commitment and principals' comm itment was associated with school robustness. Principals' commitment a nd their ratings of robustness were correlated. Teachers were lower th an principals in their estimates of both commitment and robustness. Ho wever, teachers' perceptions of their principal's commitment and the p rincipals' self-reported commitment were significantly related. Explan ations for these and other results were suggested.