Abstract
The aim of the current study is to investigate the practices and effectiveness of leadership wisdom among the principals of excellent secondary schools as perceived by the Senior Assistants. This research employed survey approach by using a validated questionnaire. The respondents were 417 Senior Assistants, who were randomly selected from the principals of excellent secondary schools in Malaysia. The findings showed that the Senior Assistants’ perceptions of principals’ practices of leadership wisdom were positively at higher level regarding principals’ application of their knowledge to benefit the staff as well as the whole school. Interestingly, the data show that the senior assistants’ perceptions of practice effectiveness were also higher. The implication is that all senior assistants are appropriate for their duties in excellent schools. Also the study findings would inspire the educational leaders to enhance their practices of leadership wisdom to move forward the institution in the realization of Vision 2020 as well as Malaysia Education Plan 2013-2025.
Highlights
The continuous and major challenges of the educational reforms require effective leadership competent in dealing with the current issues, as well as leading the organizations towards excellent performance
The senior assistants’ perceptions of leadership wisdom practice effectiveness among principals of excellent secondary schools were highest regarding the item ‘The principal always applies his/her knowledge for the benefit of the members of the school organization and for school as a whole’, and the second widely chosen item was the item ‘The principal always demonstrates his/her intellectual wisdom’. These were followed by the items ‘The principal can tolerate the implementation of period of strategy but he/she is strict towards its achievement’, ‘The principal always holds on the values created together with the members of the school organization’, and ‘The principal is reasonable in balancing the individual interest of all members of the school organization with school interest’, respectively
The current study discovered that the senior assistants’ perceptions of leadership wisdom effectiveness among the principals were above mean, i.e., 4.000
Summary
The continuous and major challenges of the educational reforms require effective leadership competent in dealing with the current issues, as well as leading the organizations towards excellent performance. Leaders require wisdom to make their ideas creative, practical, functional, convincing, and valuable, and they will be able to combine practical intelligence, analytical intelligence and emotional intelligence. This provides an insightful and challenging set of criteria for leaders to develop and deploy strategic choices with knowledge, wisdom, justice empowerment, resilience, faithfulness, integrity, and efficiency. They need wisdom to balance the effects of ideas on themselves, others and institutions in both the short and the long run He stated that for successful intelligence there is a need to combine practical intelligence, analytical intelligence and emotional intelligence. On the same note, Davies and Davies (2010) admit that this provides an insightful and challenging set of criteria for leaders to develop in order to deploy strategic choices with wisdom and effectiveness
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