Visionary Leadership Of School Administrators Affecting Performance Effectiveness Of Teachers In Schools Under The Office Of Mukdahan Secondary Educational Service Area

Abstract

The objectives of this research were the following: 1) To study the components of visionary leadership of school administrators, 2) To investigate the level of visionary leadership of school administrators, 3) To explore the level of performance effectiveness of school teachers, 4) To examine the relationship between the administrators’ visionary leadership and the teachers’ performance effectiveness, 5) To find the administrators’ visionary leadership’s predictive power of visionary leadership which affected the teachers’ performance effectiveness, 6) To gain guidelines on developing the administrators’ visionary leadership which affected performance effectiveness of the teachers in schools under the Office of Mukdahan Secondary Educational Service Area. Obtained through multi stage sampling technique, the samples consisted of 332 educational institutions’ administrators and teachers. A 5-rating scale questionnaire with .80-1.00 validity, .60-.93 discrimination, and .94 reliability was employed as the research tool to collect the data concerning visionary leadership. The statistics used for data analysis were percentage, mean, standard deviation, Pearson Product –Moment Correlation Coefficients and Stepwise Multiple Regression Analysis.

              The study revealed these results:

1. The visionary leadership of the administrators in schools under the Office of Mukdahan Secondary Educational Service Area incorporated 4 components: vision building, vision dissemination, vision implementation, and being the role model


2. The overall visionary leadership of the administrators in schools under the Office of Mukdahan Secondary Educational Service Area was at the high level.


3. The overall performance effectiveness of the teachers in schools under the Office of Mukdahan Secondary Educational Service Area was at the high level.


4. The administrators’ visionary leadership and the teachers’ performance effectiveness in schools under the Office of Mukdahan Secondary Educational Service Area were positively correlated at .05 statistical level of significance.


5. Three components of the administrators’ visionary leadership could be used to significantly predict the teachers’ performance effectiveness in schools under the Office of Mukdahan Secondary Educational Service Area at .05 statistical level: vision building (X₁), vision implementation (X₃), and being the role model (X₄). These prediction models were shown as in the equations below:

                   Raw score model

                   Y^/ = 1.284 + .103 (X₁) + .150 (X₃) + .489 (X₄)

                      Standard score model

                  Z^/_y = .121 (Z^/_X1) + .162 (Z^/_X3) + .702 (Z^/_X4)

1. Regarding the guidelines on developing the visionary leadership that affected the teachers’ performance effectiveness, three aspects had been given for the development: vision building, vision implementation, and being the role model.