UNDERSTANDING THE DIMENSIONS OF CREATIVE LEADERSHIP: A STUDY AMONG SCHOOL PRINCIPALS IN BANGALORE

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to understand the dimensions of creative leadership, develop a questionnaire for principals to measure creative leadership,and conduct a pilot study. A stratified random sampling technique was adopted to study among 88school principals from varioustypes of school management like government, private aided, and private schools from urban and rural Bangalore. This study presents a framework for understanding creative leadership based on the previous review of the literature. The present research reveals a new perspective of understating creative leadership in terms of Personal Creativity Traits (PCT) and Professional Leadership Practice (PLP)among principals at the schoollevel. The personal creativity traits include risk-taking& learning from failure, originality of ideas,openness towards others’ ideas, and belief&value system. Professionalleadership includesfour practices which are discovering opportunities&problem solving, envisioning the future &inspiring a shared vision, enabling collaboration & strengthening the team, and encouraging the emotional connect in the team. The reliability and validity of the Creative Leadership Tool for Principals (CLTP)are also discussed. The finding of the studyindicates that there was no influence of the type of school management on certain aspects of Personal Creativity Traits (PCT) and Professional Leadership Practice (PLP). There is no significant difference in the urban and rural locations of Bangalore with certain aspects of Personal Creativity Traits (PCT) and all the subdomains of Professional Leadership Practice (PLP).