The Relationship between Organizational Health and Robust School Vision in Elementary Schools

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Teachers play an important role in developing a robust school vision. This study is aimed to find out the likely relationship between the teachers’ perception of school health and a robust school vision. It has been found that there is a significant positive relationship between teachers’ perceptions of organizational health and the relative robustness of their school vision. Subsequent regression analysis indicates that collegial leadership and academic emphasis and resource support were the school health themes that characterized an overall association with robust school vision. Leadership is the art of creating a working atmosphere which motivates and directs the people working in the organization as to the achievement of organizational aims and performance levels (Lashway, 1997; Manase, 1985; Sashkin, 1986). Creating such an atmosphere depends on the leader formulating a robust vision. Sharing such a school vision promotes a feeling of cooperation in administrators, teachers, students and others to attain the desired future state. In organizational development, the leader, rather than being an important concept, is regarded as the one who guides and creates an appropriate environment for the employees. However, leadership alone is not sufficient in developing a strong organizational vision. A robust school vision which reflects the aims and needs of the society not only helps education develop further but also reconstructs the relations between the school and its environment (Hoy & Miskel, 1991; Tsui & Cheng, 1999; Hoy & Hannum, 1997; Hoy, Tarter & Kottkamp’s, 1991). School health has been defined as the organization’s ability to adapt to its environment, accomplish