BUDDHIST TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP AND SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION

Abstract

The Buddhist administration is the application of the Buddhist principles in administration by focusing on the management principles. The 3 management styles according to the Buddhist guidelines are important factors in generating success or failure in administration including: 1) Attadhipateyya or supremacy of one’s self; 2) Lokadhipateyya or supremacy of the public; and 3) Dhammadhipateyya of supremacy of the righteousness. The Buddhist administration principles that educational institutions generally apply in school management can be processed in three steps: 1) knowledge (cognitive learning); 2) practice (following the knowledge); and 3) outcome (awareness and understanding from the practice in step 2). However, the most important key of school administration that will lead the school to achieve its goals is the school administrator that should be a person of efficacy, knowledge, wide vision, skill in management, flexibility, credibility and be a person who knows how to apply Dhamma principles in administrating the school to achieve maximum efficiency and effectiveness of the organization.