Individual Abilities of Strategic Educational Leaders in Secondary Schools and Its Relationship with Secondary School Reputation
Keywords:
Educational leaders, individual abilities, school reputationAbstract
This paper examines the impact of the element of individual abilities of strategic leadership practice model of educational school leaders attached to secondary schools in Malaysia on the reputation of the secondary schools. It is to validate the proposed models of the study as well as to investigate whether there is a positive correlation between the educational leaders’ individual abilities with the secondary school reputation. The population of the study is the educational school leaders of secondary schools in Malaysia. Based on the population, the sample size of 379 is involved in the study. The stratified random sampling technique is applied and 6 – point Likert scale questionnaire is used as the instrument in data collection process. The data is analyzed using SPSS and PLS SEM. It is the finding that, the level of the implementation of the individual abilities possessed by the school leaders is high that enables the school to achieve desired level of reputation. Besides, the proposed models of Individual Abilities and Secondary School Reputation are proven valid and reliable. There is also a positive relationship between the individual abilities of strategic school leaders and school reputation. It is to be optimistic that the study would provide some new perspective and insight for the school leaders to possess the outstanding personalities that help the school to be well reputed.
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