LEADERSHIP CHARACTERISTICS OF SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS

Abstract

Leadership is the condition that leaders in agencies or organizations use their scientific and artistic potentials to lead and motivate their colleagues to willingly and enthusiastically act in order to achieve the organizational objectives. Leadership is also an expressed behavior in using the administration process of a person to influence other persons or groups by motivating and building trust to act or deny acting as targeted by the leaders. The characters and qualifications of leadership are to demonstrate the importance of leadership in organizations in both the leaders and the followers of the organization to be able to lead the organization to achieve successes from both within and outside the organization to the national level. All these successes need to be depended upon the leadership. Leadership theory differs according to thoughts and experiences of each scholar in each era. The theoretical concepts have different advantages and shortcomings. It is not possible to find a resolution on which theory is most accurate because each theory always has its certain advantage. The results of the study of theoretical shortcomings and criticisms of the scholars have led to further development of the ideas that were originally proposed and attempted to study more in-depth. This is beneficial for future generations to adopt the concept as a guideline to practice for further development and improvement. The Leaders or administrators with a paradigm in education administration leading to that success, they have to systematically deal with planning, staffing, directing and coordinating.  With systematic and efficient control as planned, the school administrators can manage to achieve educational targets and standards. This will help improving and developing the school education management to fit into the local context. It also develops persons to be progressive and genuinely keep pace with the technology. Leadership of the school administrators is necessary to be developed in both self-development and organizational leadership development.