PERFORMANCE A RESULT OF THE IMPACT OF THE NEW FACET LEADERSHIP STYLE IN THE SECONDARY SCHOOLS OF MAURITIUS

Abstract

The Mauritian Government has been investing massively in the education sector (Subrun & Subrun, 2015) so as to produce a new generation of innovative leaders. School leaders and their leadership styles play an important role in casting a quality future workforce by creating a conducive working environment leading to job satisfaction and performance. The output of the secondary schools is the future of the tertiary education system. Thus, tertiary education depends entirely on the output of the secondary school system. The quality output in the secondary system ultimately leads to quality input in the tertiary education system and finally, it supplies a quality output of students in the job market and a good workforce. In view to investigate whether there is an impact of the New Facet Leadership Style on performance, the New Facet Leadership Style comprising of Instructional leadership, Transformational leadership, Moral leadership, Participative leadership, Managerial leadership and Contingency leadership style along with the transformational leadership style was scrutinized in the Mauritian state and private secondary school. Data was gathered from 500 partakers of the secondary school system. The present study analyses the impact of the various socio-psychological in relation to the New Facet Leadership Style, work culture, the attitude of the members towards their job, occupational self-efficacy, selfconcept on job satisfaction and performance through the SPSS and the SPSS AMOS. Structural Equation Modeling has been used as the confirmatory tool to gauge the impact of the New Facet Leadership Style and its impact on performance.