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

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

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Abstract

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.

Item Type:	Book Chapter
Additional Information:	8362/71012- Book call no. m LB 2806 P923A 2019
Uncontrolled Keywords:	school leadership, teachers, Malaysia, Malaysian Northern State schools
Subjects:	L Education > L Education (General) L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB1603 Secondary Education. High schools L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB2801 School administration and organization
Kulliyyahs/Centres/Divisions/Institutes (Can select more than one option. Press CONTROL button):	Kulliyyah of Education
Depositing User:	DR ISMAIL HUSSEIN AMZAT
Date Deposited:	15 Mar 2019 09:17
Last Modified:	15 Mar 2019 09:17
URI:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/id/eprint/71012

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