Kepimpinan distributif pemimpin sekolah, pengurusan konflik dan persekitaran sekolah berkesan dan sekolah kurang berkesan

• Main Author: Zuraidah Juliana, Mohamad Yusoff
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English; English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: LB2801-3095 School administration and organization
• Online Access: https://etd.uum.edu.my/6136/1/s95148_01.pdf; https://etd.uum.edu.my/6136/2/s95148_02.pdf; https://etd.uum.edu.my/6136/
• Institution: Universiti Utara Malaysia

Malaysia Education Blueprint (MEB) 2013-2025 emphasizes distributive leadership practices among school leaders by the year 2016. These efforts be conducted towards improving social capital and economic capital through effective school improvement, quality improvement of human capital, and the growth of state assets to achieve a developed nation by 2020. However, issues of education transformation and the complexity of leadership has led to increasing complexity of continuous conflict and affects the school's quality and performance. This study was conducted, to reviewing the distributive leadership among school leaders, conflict management, and the school environment in two different categories of schools namely effective school and less effective school. Specifically, this study examines the effect and relationship of distributive leadership practices for the conflict management and the school environment in addition to review the role of conflict management that acts as a mediator in the association relations. Cross-sectional survey method was applied in the process of collecting data through Leadership Performance Inventory (LPI) formed by Kouzes and Posner in 2003, Rahim Organizational Conflict Inventory – II (ROCI-II) that was formed in 1983, and Teacher School Environment Questionnaire (TSEQ) formed by Lemerle in 2005. 460 school leaders were choosen as respondents. The findings show distributive leadership proved affects on conflict management in effective schools and less effective schools. In addition, the distributive leadership also has a relationship with the school environment and influence on the school environment in effective schools and less effective schools. In conclusion, the findings prove conflict management as mediator variables between distributive leadership with the school environment relationship which acts as a partial mediator in conflict management. This study successfully links three main theories which high practices of conflict management lead to increased distributive leadership skills and thus improve the quality of school environment. This study also can be used by school leaders as a guide in assessing the strengths and weaknesses of the leadership aspects in addition to the basic reference to improve the range of knowledge, skills, and leadership management as sharing the vision, values, duties and responsibilities of the organization in particular, as well as research in aspects of conflict management and schools environment generally.