The Explanatory Power of Cultural Intelligence and Organizational Learning to Predict Teachers' Professional Skills

Document Type : research paper

Authors

1 M. A of Education, Qom Branch, Islamic Azad University, Qom. Iran

2 Assistant Professor, Department of Education, Qom Branch, Islamic Azad university, Qom, Iran

Abstract

The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between cultural intelligence and organizational learning with professional skills of high school teachers. The method was applied in terms of objectives which followed a descriptive correlation design to collect the data. The statistical population consisted of 2018 state high school teachers in Qom province teaching in the second semester of the academic years of 96-97. 252 subjects were selected randomly as the sample in accordance with the Morgan and Krejsi tables. The data was collected from three standard questionnaires: Tabeshfard's Organization Learning, Early and Angle's Cultural Intelligence and Hajizadeh's Professional Skills. The reliability measures considered to be appropriate on the basis of Alpha-Cronbach's were .96, .92 and .94 for the instruments, respectively. The results showed that there was a positive and significant relationship between cultural intelligence and professional skills (r = .536), using the Pearson correlation coefficient, regression, and Fisher test. In addition, organizational learning and professional skills were found to be positively and significantly correlated (r = .969). Finally, it was revealed that organizational learning (β=.963) and cultural intelligence (β=0.44) can significantly predict significant professional skills.

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