Leadership Competencies and Work Place Values Keys to School Effectiveness in Public and Private Schools

摘要

The present study aimed to investigate teachers’ perception regarding their principal’s leadership competencies, work culture values and school effectiveness (SE). With the help of purposive sampling method 120 teachers were selected from different management type schools (i.e., central, state, state aided and private unaided). Findings reveal that maximum number of teachers perceived their principals’ as ‘capable and participative’. Regarding teachers’ work culture values, self-realization and socio-economic support were found to be highly valued and practiced. The patterns of mean scores on all the variables were found constantly high in central and private schools whereas low in state schools. Regression results revealed that self-realization values were found as a common predicting variable for almost all the components of SE. The critical perspective of these findings is useful in understanding how this set of key variables as a whole defines the effectiveness of schools at all levels.