The Impact of Leadership Styles of School Administrators on Affecting Teacher Effectiveness

Abstract

Currently, most of the administrators are facing problems of applying suitable leadership style in their administration, reported by the Educational Work Unit. Therefore, applying suitable leadership may assist administrators to solve the confusion due to the overlapping of work occurred in work practice, administration, and ordering or commanding among the top level of management team work unit. The Path-Goal Theory was used as the main theory to support this study. The objectives of this study were to investigate the leadership styles of school administrators that affecting teacher effectiveness. This study employed quantitative method survey design using questionnaire as an instrument. Simple random sampling technique was utilized in this study. A total of 254 administrators and teachers from schools under the Office of Kalasin Primary Educational Service Area 1 were involved as respondents. Data was analyzed using frequency, percentage, mean value, standard deviation, correlation Pearson product moment, and multiple regression Stepwise method. Findings showed that there are two types of leadership styles of school administrators, namely supportive leadership and participative leadership styles which have significantly affecting teacher effectiveness. In addition, both leadership styles have been jointly predicted teacher effectiveness at 56.80 percent at the significance level as 0.01. In conclusion, in order to increase teachers' working effectiveness, administrators should promote, practice, and improve these two leadership styles, namely supportive leadership and participative leadership styles regularly.

Maintenance Performance Framework for National Religious Secondary Schools in Malaysia

“…(Geraghty& Brown, 2018). The emphasis is also stated by Sirisookslip et al, (2015), where school administrators should have the characteristics of a leader in achieving their organizational objectives.The primary responsibility of school administrators is to provide effective supervision of educational institutions, curriculum and also to ensure that school administration works well. Many scholars having similar consensus that, leadership factors in school contributes to the success of the academic achievement and school administration.…”

Pedagogical leadership and educational management in the teaching practice of SENA - Colombia

“…In this sense, it is important that educational leaders show a stable leadership style for the development of efficient practices, even when, due to the accelerated dynamics in which society finds itself, situations of complexity and constant changes arise that generate adaptation and adaptability in the processes [8]. In this way, a direct influence of the educational leader in the management processes is established, which requires actions associated with the development of friendly relationships with his collaborators, with respect and authority, the generation of a space of trust by the educational community, for his management and commitment, understanding the particular needs not only from the knowledge of the person, but also from the surrounding context, minimizing work stress, considering the requests of all collaborators and ensuring the promotion of an organizational climate based on relationships of respect, harmony, teamwork and trust in the work performed [29] .…”

Teacher Leadership at Technical University

“…In particular, the distributed leadership model implies the responsibility of all teaching staff in the achievement of the goals of an educational institution (Bayraktar, Fidan, Sencan, 2018;Holloway, Nielsen, Saltmarsh, 2018;Von Esch, 2018). The influence of a managerial staff on teachers and educational institution effectiveness are also emphasised (Giddens, 2018;Kohtamaki, 2019;Sirisooksilp, Ariratana, and Tang, 2015;Szeto and Cheng, 2018).…”