effect related to the successful interaction among individual needs and incentives and organizational goals. (p. 1)
In other words, morale exists to the extent that attaining job related goals meets the personal and professional needs of a given teacher.
A second assumption of this study is that the existing literature does not provide justification for assuming that the findings observed for samples of public school teachers regarding job morale and the variables of interest in the proposed study are likely to generalize to private school teachers. In this regard, the literature provides both reason for believing that findings will generalize and reasons for believing that findings will not generalize.
Regarding reasons for believing that findings will generalize, there have been some studies where samples of private school teachers replicate findings observed for samples of public school teachers. For example, Ci
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