The purpose of this study was to empirically examine the effect of the secondary school
teachers’ awareness of educational authority loss on school organizational effectiveness, in
relation to the regulation effect of secondary school teacher’s morale. So, 779 questionnaires
were analyzed by using AMOS 18.0 and SPSS 12.0 after conducting a survey 943 teachers in
secondary schools in Seoul.
The findings of this research were as follows; First, among secondary school teachers’
awareness of educational authority loss, the teachers’human rights deprivation fator was the
highest. The teachers’ authority exertion restrictions factor was the second and the teachers’
authority exhaustion factor was the third. Second, when it came to secondary teachers’
awareness of educational authority loss and school organizational effectiveness, much higher
negative relationship existed. Especially secondary school teachers’ awareness of educational
authority loss had negative relationship with the psychological morale factor the occupational
morale factor, and the systematical morale factor. But it did not have any relationalship with
the environmental morale factor. On the contrary, morale had high positive ralationalships
with occupational satisfaction, occupational productivity, and organizational adaptation in
regular order. Third, when secondary school teacher’s awareness of educational authority
loss influenced on the school organizational effectiveness, the regulation effect of morale
existed. This means that the higher the psychological morale factor, the occupational morale
factor, the systematical morale factor, and the environmental morale factor is, respectively,
the lower the negative effect of secondary school teachers’ awareness of educational
authority loss on their school organizational effectiveness.