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the perception of distributed leadership in
secondary schools and teachers' and teacher
leaders'
job satisfaction and organizational
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of job satisfaction, organizational Lima, L. (2004). Career benefits associated
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Mentoring functions were gauged with 9 Kwan
items developed by
Scandura and Ragins (1993). Each mentoring
function was assessed
by 3 items. The original measurement scale
had 15 items. We
removed 6 items (3 from career support, 2
from psychosocial support,
and 1 from role modeling) because they did
not fit with the company
condition assessed in the pilot study. For
instance, given that the
company scheduled the lunch time and
location for its employees, we
dropped the item I often go to lunch with my
mentor. A sample item
was My mentor has devoted special time
and consideration to my
career. Cronbach's alphas for career support,
psychosocial support,
and role modeling were 0.86, 0.75, and 0.79,
respectively.

Week 10 report: Summary of hypothesis development