Personality Traits, Leadership Behavior and Skills of Elementary School Principals: Basis for a Proposed Re-training Program
Keywords:
Personality Traits, Leadership Behavior and Skills, Elementary School Principals, Re-training ProgramAbstract
This study assessed the extent of manifestation of the personality traits, leadership behavior and skills of public elementary school principals in the Division of Samar so as to provide input as the basis for a Proposed Retraining program. This study employed the descriptive-developmental method of research. Data to test the hypotheses were obtained from thequestionnaires distributed to 50 public elementary school principals, 24 district supervisors and 352 teachers to a total of 426 respondents in 32 districts in the Division of Samar. The procedure employed in the collection of data involved the accomplishment of the profile of the public elementary school principals, the measurement of 16 Personality Factor test of the public elementary school principals. The leadership behavior measured were consideration and initiating structure. While the leadership skills measured were the following: human relations, technical and conceptual skills. In the light of the findings and conclusions of the study, the researcher recommends the following: (1) the public elementary school principals must be provided with information on the personality traits, leadership behavior along consideration and initiating structure and leadership skills in terms of human relations, technical and conceptual skills to improve their leadership skills, (2) the public elementary school principals should undergo a training program with emphasis on personality traits and leadership skills to enhance their management and leadership skill to help improve school performance, (3) public elementary school principals should be encouraged through incentives to grow professionally by pursuing doctoral studies, (4) a study on determining the effectiveness of the training program prepared in this study may be conducted, (5) a similar study may be conducted in other divisions or regions using the same instrument to assess the personality traits leadership behavior and leadership skills of principals/administrators, (6) another study of this may be conducted to correlate the demographic profile, socio-economic status personality traits, leadership behavior and leadership skills with the addition of other related variables in order to know other factors that would make successful and effective educational managers, and (7) the re-training program proposed be tried and implemented with the end view of improving the personality traits, leadership skills and behavior of public elementary school principals/administrators such that the magnitude of their performance is strongly felt and vividly seen in school performance.
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