Leadership style and school culture as perceived by teachers in Malaysian Northern State schools

This chapter explores the effective leadership style for positive school culture as perceived by some Malaysian Northern State school teachers. This chapter uses focus group and open-ended questions to have in-depth understanding and testing of the participants' ability of suggesting or predict...

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Main Author: Amzat, Ismail Hussein
Format: Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: IGI Global 2019
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spelling iium-710122019-03-15T01:17:23Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/71012/ Leadership style and school culture as perceived by teachers in Malaysian Northern State schools Amzat, Ismail Hussein L Education (General) LB1603 Secondary Education. High schools LB2801 School administration and organization This chapter explores the effective leadership style for positive school culture as perceived by some Malaysian Northern State school teachers. This chapter uses focus group and open-ended questions to have in-depth understanding and testing of the participants' ability of suggesting or predicting the best or most effective school leadership style for building school positive culture for best leadership practices. The participants were teachers from different schools in Northern States Malaysia undertaking master program in educational management at Universiti Utara Malaysia. The findings revealed that transformational leadership style was rated, predicted, and ranked as the best leadership style for school principals to apply in building positive school culture according to their context while distributed leadership and instructional leadership could be also considered as the second leadership styles for building positive school culture in the Northern schools of Malaysia. IGI Global 2019-01-04 Book Chapter PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/71012/1/71012_Leadership%20style%20and%20school%20culture.pdf Amzat, Ismail Hussein (2019) Leadership style and school culture as perceived by teachers in Malaysian Northern State schools. In: Predictive models for school leadership and practices. IGI Global, pp. 167-192. ISBN 978-1-5225-5858-3 https://www.igi-global.com/chapter/leadership-style-and-school-culture-as-perceived-by-teachers-in-malaysian-northern-state-schools/211265
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LB1603 Secondary Education. High schools
LB2801 School administration and organization
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LB1603 Secondary Education. High schools
LB2801 School administration and organization
Amzat, Ismail Hussein
Leadership style and school culture as perceived by teachers in Malaysian Northern State schools
description This chapter explores the effective leadership style for positive school culture as perceived by some Malaysian Northern State school teachers. This chapter uses focus group and open-ended questions to have in-depth understanding and testing of the participants' ability of suggesting or predicting the best or most effective school leadership style for building school positive culture for best leadership practices. The participants were teachers from different schools in Northern States Malaysia undertaking master program in educational management at Universiti Utara Malaysia. The findings revealed that transformational leadership style was rated, predicted, and ranked as the best leadership style for school principals to apply in building positive school culture according to their context while distributed leadership and instructional leadership could be also considered as the second leadership styles for building positive school culture in the Northern schools of Malaysia.
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author Amzat, Ismail Hussein
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title Leadership style and school culture as perceived by teachers in Malaysian Northern State schools
title_short Leadership style and school culture as perceived by teachers in Malaysian Northern State schools
title_full Leadership style and school culture as perceived by teachers in Malaysian Northern State schools
title_fullStr Leadership style and school culture as perceived by teachers in Malaysian Northern State schools
title_full_unstemmed Leadership style and school culture as perceived by teachers in Malaysian Northern State schools
title_sort leadership style and school culture as perceived by teachers in malaysian northern state schools
publisher IGI Global
publishDate 2019
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/71012/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/71012/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/71012/1/71012_Leadership%20style%20and%20school%20culture.pdf
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