relation: http://eprints.iab.edu.my/v2/198/
title: THE RELATIONSHIP OF PERCEIVED PRINCIPAL'S BEHAVIOUR AND HEALTH OF SUBURBAN SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN KOTA SAMARAHAN/KUCHING DISTRICT, KUCHING 
creator: Ho , Ho Tong 
subject: LB1603 Secondary Education. High schools
description: The study was to identify the perceived teachers' perceptions of the leadership behaviour of principals and the school climate and school effectiveness of suburban secondary schools in Kota Padawan/Samarahan District, Kuching. Specifically, the objectives of the study were to determine the relationship of principal behaviour and teacher behaviour and its consequences on school climate, effectiveness and demographic variables of teacher. The instrument used to evaluate school climate was the Organisational Climate Description Questionnaire - Rutgers Secondary (OCDQ-RS) to measure teachers' perceptions of the principal leadership behaviour (supportive and directive dimensions) and teacher behaviour (intimate, engaged and frustrated dimensions) to determine whether the school climate is open or closed. In relation, school health was studied to determine the effectiveness of school. Consequently, the instrument to measure school health was the Organisational Health Inventory (OHI). It measures three level of school level of school health - the technical, managerial and institutional integrity. The technical level of the school measures morale and academic emphasis dimensions of the teaching-learning process, the managerial level of the school measures initiating structure, considerations, principle influence and resource support dimensions that is related to the internal administrative function and controls where as the institutional level of the school measures institutional integrity dimension concerning the school and its environment. In order to investigate the relationship between school climate and school health, principal behaviour and the school climate, and principle behaviour and teacher behaviour, correlation analysis of Pearson's Correlation was used. Moreover, Independent t-test and One-way ANOVA were used to test the relationship of demographic variables of teacher vis-à-vis gender, academic qualification, years of service and workloads and school climate. The major findings revealed that there was significant relationship between school climate and school health. School openness was related to school health. Thus, significant relationship were found between school openness and integrity level of health, managerial level of health and technical level of health which involved the subscale dimensions of consideration, initiating structure, principal influence, resource support, morale and academic emphasis. Significant relationship was also found between principal openness and the engaged behaviour and intimate behaviour of teacher. In addition, strong significant relationship were also found between school openness and principal openness, school openness and teacher openness, school openness and principal supportive and directive behaviour, and school openness related to teacher engaged and intimate behaviour. However, demographic variables of teachers involving gender, academic qualification and years of service except workloads were not significantly related to school climate. In conclusion, principal behaviour and teacher behaviour were significantly related to school climate and consequently associated with effectiveness of school as indicated by school health.
publisher: Institut Aminuddin Baki
date: 2004-12-06
type: Article
type: PeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
language: en
identifier: http://eprints.iab.edu.my/v2/198/1/PROSIDING_SN_12.pdf_8.pdf
identifier:   Ho , Ho Tong   (2004) THE RELATIONSHIP OF PERCEIVED PRINCIPAL'S BEHAVIOUR AND HEALTH OF SUBURBAN SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN KOTA SAMARAHAN/KUCHING DISTRICT, KUCHING.  Seminar Nasional Pengurusan dan Kepimpinan Pendidikan Ke-12 2004.  pp. 117-132.  ISSN 983-9479-17-2