Structural Equation Modelling on the Relationships between Teachers’ Trust in Manager, Commitment to Manager, Satisfaction with Manager and Intent to Leave / Modeliranje strukturnih jednadžbi na temelju veza između povjerenja nastavnika u menadžment, pred

Abstract

Abstract
This study aims to determine the relationships among teachers' trust in the manager, commitment to the manager, satisfaction with the manager and teachers' intent to leave. The data was collected on the sample of 478 primary school teachers using self-report scales. Two alternative structural models were examined: one proposed that satisfaction with the manager causes commitment, while the other one proposed that commitment causes satisfaction. Both alternative models yielded exactly the same good fit indices. According to the first model, the teachers' trust in manager predicts their satisfaction with manager and commitment to manager positively, while trust in manager negatively predicts their intent to leave through the mediating effect of satisfaction with manager. According to the second model, teachers' trust in manager positively predicts their satisfaction with manager and commitment to manager, while trust in manager negatively predicts the teachers' intent to leave through the mediating effects of commitment to manager and satisfaction with manager.
Key words: commitment to the manager; intent to leave; satisfaction with the manager; trust in the manager.

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Sažetak
Cilj ovoga istraživanja je odrediti veze između povjerenja zaposlenika u menadžera, predanosti menadžeru, zadovoljstva menadžerom i namjere nastavnika da napuste ustanovu u kojoj rade. Podaci su prikupljeni na uzorku od 478 nastavnika osnovne škole koji su upotrebljavali skale samoprocjene. Ispitana su i dva drugačija strukturna modela: jedan koji tvrdi da zadovoljstvo menadžmentom vodi predanosti i drugi koji tvrdi da predanost menadžmentu vodi zadovoljstvu. Oba modela pokazala su jednako dobre indekse pogodnosti. Prema prvome modelu povjerenje nastavnika u menadžera pozitivno utječe na njihovo zadovoljstvo menadžerom i predanost menadžeru, dok to isto povjerenje u menadžera umanjuje njihovu namjeru da napuste organizaciju, kroz medijacijski učinak zadovoljstva menadžerom. Prema drugome modelu, povjerenje nastavnika u menadžera pozitivno utječe na njihovo zadovoljstvo menadžerom i na predanost menadžeru, dok povjerenje u menadžera umanjuje njihovu namjeru da napuste organizaciju, kroz medijacijski učinak predanosti menadžeru i zadovoljstva menadžerom.
Ključne riječi: namjera napuštanja organizacije; povjerenje u menadžera; predanost menadžeru; zadovoljstvo menadžerom.