Effect Size of Spiritual Leadership: In the Process of School Culture and Academic Success

Zehra Altınay Gazi,Fahriye Altınay Aksal,Mehmet Karadağ,Gökmen Dağli

doi:10.1177/2158244020914638

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Journal: SAGE Open	Publication Date: Jan 1, 2020
Citations: 16	License type: CC BY 4.0

Affiliation: Near East University

Abstract

The basic objective of this study is to examine whether there is a relationship between spiritual leadership, school culture, and academic success. The data were collected by mixed method from teachers working in seven high schools and five achievement low level high schools in Şanlıurfa in 2018. The data obtained from the teachers were analyzed using quantitative and qualitative methods. The conducted analyses revealed two important results. First, it can be claimed that as spiritual leadership perception of teachers increase, so does their school culture perception. The second result is the impact of both spiritual leadership and school culture on academic success. Therefore, the impact of spiritual leadership and school culture on two variables (high success, low success) has been examined separately. As the spiritual leadership and school culture perception of teachers increase, so does academic success.

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As a social reality that is as old as humanity, “leadership” is affected by the change as all social elements (King & Vaiman, 2019)
This study focuses on the impact of spiritual leadership and school culture, which are school-related variables, on the academic achievement of the school
The Pearson correlation test was used to investigate the correlation among manager spiritual leadership perception of teachers plus its sub-dimensions and school culture scale plus its sub-dimensions

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As a social reality that is as old as humanity, “leadership” is affected by the change as all social elements (King & Vaiman, 2019). Leadership studies are moving away from traditional organizations, centralists, formal and fear-based bureaucracy and coming closer to the human factor which is their constituent element (Baloğlu & Karadağ, 2009). Leadership theories emerged, which provided for more participation of the members in management and which gave more importance to their needs (Altınay et al, 2018; Lam et al, 2012). One of these approaches is that the importance of Spiritual Leadership has increased recently (Özgan et al, 2013). Increasingly successful organizations are led by leaders who prioritize spiritual values (Çimen & Karadağ, 2019)

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