Conceptualizing creative leadership and collaborative school culture

• Main Authors: Lope Pihie, Zaidatol Akmaliah, Abdul Kadir, Suhaida, Arivayagan, Keetanjaly
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Photonics 2017
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/61204/1/Conceptualizing%20creative%20leadership%20and%20collaborative%20school%20culture.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/61204/; https://www.elixirpublishers.com/index.php?route=articles/category&path=331_376&limit=50
• Institution: Universiti Putra Malaysia

Lately in educational organization, voluminous studies accentuate the momentous of leadership in mobilizing creativity. Creativity skill is seen as one of the important skills required for the 21st century leadership, which is also known as the tool for creative leader’s mind in engaging and stimulating ideas to execute outcomes. Hence, leaders should create an opportunity by involving every employee and stakeholders in schools to contribute their ideas towards developing creative solutions to enhance school productivity. The focal point of this article is to offer a conceptual framework on creative leadership practices among school leaders towards collaborative school culture. Intensive reviews of literature will be used in the fields of creative leadership and school culture with the aim to nurture leaders into better leader and encourage collaborative school culture. The framework contributes a new shed on the implication of creative leadership practices and collaborative school culture. It also will contribute a new theory development and offered suggestions for follow up research.