Kompetensi emosi dan amalan kepimpinan situasi dalam kalangan pemimpin di sekolah-sekolah Berprestasi Tinggi di negeri Kedah

• Main Authors: Don, Yahya, Daud, Yaakob, Sakdan, Mohd Fo'ad, Kasim, Abd Latif, Ismail, Siti Noor
• Format: Monograph
• Language: English
• Published: Universiti Utara Malaysia 2013
• Subjects: LB1603 Secondary Education. High schools
• Online Access: http://repo.uum.edu.my/14372/1/LAT.pdf; http://repo.uum.edu.my/14372/; http://lintas.uum.edu.my:8080/elmu/index.jsp?module=webopac-l&action=fullDisplayRetriever.jsp&szMaterialNo=0000793045
• Institution: Universiti Utara Malaysia

This study was aimed to identify the emotional competencies of the top leadership towards increasing the high-performance schools in Malaysia.In addition, the study also was aimed to investigate the differences of emotional competencies of school leaders through five emotional competencies clusters of intrapersonal, interpersonal, stress management, adjustment of the situation, and the general feeling.In this study, the top leadership of the school leader was referred to the practice of situational leadership.The methodology of this study was quantitative cross sectional survey approach (cross-sectional survey) to collect data on the study.The sample of this study involved 300 leaders of high performance schools in Kedah. Simple random sampling was used to select the study population.The instrument used was through the construction of the questionnaire and tested the validity and reliability of the study items. Analysis of the survey data was done using the SPSS (Statistical Package For Social Science) version 18.0. The descriptive data analysis involving descriptions such as frequency and percentage of respondents, while the second is inferential analysis to test the research hypotheses using Pearson correlation test, t-test, ANOVA, Regression Analysis.The results showed there was a difference and a positive significant impact on their emotional and situational leadership competence of school leaders.The study also revealed that the cluster of interpersonal emotional competencies had become key elements to the formation of situational leadership practices of school leaders.Accordingly, emotional competence was an important element in improving situational among leadership school leaders in the state of Kedah, in turn, would had increased the number of high performance schools in Malaysia.