Leadership Qualities of School Heads in Jiabong District
Keywords:
Leadership, Qualities, School HeadsAbstract
This study assessed the relationship of leadership qualities and teaching personnel performances in terms of integrity, competence, courage, vision and inspiration in the District of Jiabong, Division of Samar during the school year 2010-2011. The descriptive-developmental research method was employed in this study using the questionnaire as the main instrument in gathering the needed data. In terms of the relationships between the performance of the teaching personnel and the leadership qualities of the school heads as perceived by themselves, the following are the results of the relationship analyzes; along integrity, competencies in planning, controlling, organizing, leading, courage, vision and inspiring, have a computed values of 0.140, 0.890, 0.692, 0.420, 0.796, 0.094, 1.752, and 1.56, respectively. All these values proved to be lesser than the critical value of 1.96 at 0.05 level of significance, df= 87 which led to the acceptance of the null hypothesis. Thus, there is no significant relationship between the performance of the teaching personnel and the leadership qualities of the school heads. On the leadership qualities along with integrity, competence, courage, vision school heads and teaching personnel-respondents had conformed to the same opinion that all of these leadership qualities of school heads presented as perceived by themselves were rated as very satisfactory. This implies that these groups of respondents have rated it objectively. However, it was only in the teaching personnel-respondents group that the leadership qualities of the school heads were rated by themselves as satisfactory. Based on the perceptions of the teaching personnel-respondents, it can be implied that there is a need for further training among the school heads in Jiabong district on leadership qualities so that they could perform their job effectively and efficiently.
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