The Relationship between Educational Transformational Leadership and Teacher Quality at Secondary School: Total Quality Management as Mediator

Mohd Rahimi A Rahman,Ashairi Suliman,Mohamed Yusoff Mohd Nor,Jamalul Lail Abdul Wahab

doi:10.13189/ujer.2020.081202

Abstract

This study aims to examine the relationship between educational transformation leadership and the quality of teachers in secondary schools, as well as to identify the impact of total quality management practices on the relationship between both variables. This study used a cross-sectional survey involving 423 secondary school teachers from across Malaysia. Data were collected using questionnaires adapted from Total Quality Management Instruments, Multi-Factor Leadership Questionnaire and Malaysian Teacher Standards Instruments. This study used the Pearson Correlation inference analysis to determine the relationship between variables and SPSS Process Macro 3.0 analysis to identify mediator effects. The results show that the relationships between educational leadership and Total Quality Management practices (.768), Total Quality Management practices and teacher quality (.942), educational transformational leadership and teacher quality (.846) are all positive and significant. In addition, the Variance Accounted For (VAF) for the mediator is 64.62%. Thus, it can be concluded that Total Quality Management has a partial mediator effect on the relationship between educational transformational leadership and teacher quality in secondary schools. The findings of this study can contribute to the improvement of school management practices, specifically through the implementation of educational transformational leadership, Total Quality Management and teachers' quality. In summary, the findings suggest that educational transformational leadership and Total Quality Management can contribute to the improvement of teachers' quality.

Highlights

Teachers play a significant role in helping to achieve students’ excellence and school effectiveness, in implementing an effective education system to develop a highly educated, knowledge-driven society [1]
This study aims to identify the relationship between the implementation of educational transformational leadership, Total Quality Management practices and teachers’ quality
This study provides an overview of the relationship between the independent variable, the mediating variable and the dependent variable

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Introduction

Teachers play a significant role in helping to achieve students’ excellence and school effectiveness, in implementing an effective education system to develop a highly educated, knowledge-driven society [1]. The Relationship between Educational Transformational Leadership and Teacher Quality at Secondary School: Total Quality Management as Mediator the National Philosophy of Education, teachers contribute to the government’s effort to produce holistic individuals with balanced spiritual, physical and emotional growth This is to ensure the future generation achieves personal well-being and contribute to the country’s prosperity and growth [3]. Quality teachers play an important role in fulfilling the goals of the education system by achieving their school’s goals [7] This further demonstrates that having high-quality teachers is an important aspect in the attempt to fulfil Malaysia’s aspiration to become a developed and educated country. All these aspects can be fulfilled if the teachers have excellent professional and personal qualities

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