Moderators of Leadership Behaviour Among Principals

Contents: 1. Introduction. 2. Review of Related Literature. 3. Methodology. 4. Analysis and Interpretation. 5. Findings and Discussions. 6. Summary. References. Index.

“The basic approach of the book ‘Moderators of Leadership Behaviour among Principals’ depends to a great extent on the principal’s roles on the organizational climate, teachers’ job satisfaction and pupils’ academic achievement in his/her schools. These principal’s role plays a significant role in the effectiveness of teachers and satisfactions in their jobs, good organizational climate among staffs and pupils’ academic achievement. But the principal’s role also depend – on the different moderate variables e.g. sex, age, teaching experience, administrative experience and personality of the principal. This book also focuses on some of the important factors that contribute to teacher effectiveness and how certain principal’s personal factors induce better performance in the students’ academic achievement and rendering the school itself to be one of the high performance schools. It also has aimed to put across the view points that the differences in the performance of schools due to a combination of a number of factors which are all remediable and together capable of bringing about a change in teachers and students, thereby elevating the schools to a high performance level. In the current climate of uncertainty over the role and future direction of the education system, this important collection of realistic, thought-provoking essays from a number of distinguished educationists is required reading for everyone involved in education – teachers, students, administrators, educational psychologists and parents.”