The Relationship of Teachers’ Perception of the Principal’s Leadership Behaviors, Their Effectiveness and Performance at an International School

บทคัดย่อ

This quantitative study had the purpose of determining whether there was a significant relationship between the teachers’ perception of the principal’s leadership behaviors, their effectiveness and performance at an international school in Bangkok. A population sample of 30 teachers from the target school, in the academic year 2022-2023, participated in the study. For the data collection, Avolio and Bass’s (1991) Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire, Prakash et al.’s (2020) Teacher Effectiveness Scale, and Amin et al.’s (2013) Teachers’ Job Performance Questionnaire, were used. Data analysis was conducted by performing descriptive statistics (i.e., means and standard deviations) and correlational analysis on the collected data. From the data analysis, it was found that:

1. the principal’s leadership behaviors were perceived by the participants as highly transformational, highly transactional, and lowly laissez-faire;


2. the overall levels of teachers’ effectiveness and teachers’ performance were both perceived as high by the participants; and


3. only two out of the four independent variables addressed in this study were found to be significantly (α = .05) and positively correlated to the teachers’ performance: the teachers’ perception of the principal’s transformational leadership behaviors (r = .61, p < .001) and transactional leadership behaviors (r = .58, p = .001).