THE CREATIVE LEADERSHIP OF SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS AFFECTING THE ORGANIZATIONAL CLIMATE OF SCHOOLS UNDER THE OFFICE OF BASIC EDUCATION COMMISSION

Abstract

The purposes of this research were: 1) To study the components and indicators of creative leadership of school administrators; 2) To study the best practices of creative leadership of school administrators; 3) To study creative leadership of school administrators; 4) To study the organizational climate of the schools; 5) To study the relationship between creative leadership of school administrators and the organizational climate of the school: and 6) To create a forecast equation of the organizational climate of the schools under the office of basic education commission. The samples were 325 a teachers in the schools under the office of secondary educational service area 21 selected by using stratified random sampling. The instrument used in the research was a questionnaire with rating scale of 5 levels. The statistics used for data analysis were frequency distribution, percentage, mean, standard deviation, Pearson's correlation coefficient and stepwise multiple regression analysis. The results of the research were as the followings: 1. The components of creative leadership of school administrators included 3 components and 31 indicators consisting: 12 indicators in vision component; 8 indicators of flexibility component; and 11 indicators of the creativity component. 2. In the study on best practices, an additional component of the creative leadership of the school administrators was achieved i.e. the component of the implementation towards the goals including 11 indicators. 3. In the overall creative leadership of the school administrators under the office of basic education commission was at a high level. 4. The overall organizational climate of the schools under the office of basic education commission was at a high level. 5. The creative leadership of the school administrators had its relationship with the organizational climate of the schools under the office of basic education commission. 6. For the forecasting equation of the organizational climate of the schools  under the office of basic education commission by using creative leadership of the school administrators as predictive variable, the predictive power was at 62.10 percent.