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Teachers' perceptions on transformational leadership based on demographic differences

Transformational leadership emphasizes emotions and values sharing and aims at fundamental reform of individuals and the whole organization capacity. It has contributed to development in terms of motivation and commitment in problem solving as well as implementation of reform initiative. The purpose...

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Main Authors: Talebloo, Baharak, Basri, Ramli, Asimiran, Soaib, Hassan, Aminuddin
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Published: IDOSI Publications 2015
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spelling my.upm.eprints.594012018-03-01T04:38:48Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/59401/ Teachers' perceptions on transformational leadership based on demographic differences Talebloo, Baharak Basri, Ramli Asimiran, Soaib Hassan, Aminuddin Transformational leadership emphasizes emotions and values sharing and aims at fundamental reform of individuals and the whole organization capacity. It has contributed to development in terms of motivation and commitment in problem solving as well as implementation of reform initiative. The purpose of this study was to determine the level of transformational leadership in primary schools in Malaysia based on demographic differences. 144 primary school teachers from 24 schools in six district of Selangor were selected based on stratified random sampling. Data were collected based on survey method and were analysed using descriptive and independent t-sample test and one way-ANOVA. According to the findings the level of transformational leadership was high based on teachers’ perceptions. Furthermore, result of analysis indicated that there among transformational leadership dimensions there was significant difference between national, chines and Tamil teachers’ perception in individualized support and collaborative in decision making. The findings based on differences in transformation leadership by location showed that teacher perceptions in urban area higher in modelling behaviour and straight school culture than the rural teacher’s perceptions. The findings of this study have implications for how close or far the schools move towards 2010 Malaysia vision and which transformational leadership factors need to be focused on more. IDOSI Publications 2015 Article PeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/59401/1/Teachers%27%20perceptions%20on%20transformational%20leadership%20based%20on%20demographic%20differences.pdf Talebloo, Baharak and Basri, Ramli and Asimiran, Soaib and Hassan, Aminuddin (2015) Teachers' perceptions on transformational leadership based on demographic differences. Middle-East Journal of Scientific Research, 23 (6). pp. 1105-1113. ISSN 1990-9233; ESSN: 1999-8147 http://idosi.org/mejsr/mejsr23(6)15.htm 10.5829/idosi.mejsr.2015.23.06.22201
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description Transformational leadership emphasizes emotions and values sharing and aims at fundamental reform of individuals and the whole organization capacity. It has contributed to development in terms of motivation and commitment in problem solving as well as implementation of reform initiative. The purpose of this study was to determine the level of transformational leadership in primary schools in Malaysia based on demographic differences. 144 primary school teachers from 24 schools in six district of Selangor were selected based on stratified random sampling. Data were collected based on survey method and were analysed using descriptive and independent t-sample test and one way-ANOVA. According to the findings the level of transformational leadership was high based on teachers’ perceptions. Furthermore, result of analysis indicated that there among transformational leadership dimensions there was significant difference between national, chines and Tamil teachers’ perception in individualized support and collaborative in decision making. The findings based on differences in transformation leadership by location showed that teacher perceptions in urban area higher in modelling behaviour and straight school culture than the rural teacher’s perceptions. The findings of this study have implications for how close or far the schools move towards 2010 Malaysia vision and which transformational leadership factors need to be focused on more.
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author Talebloo, Baharak
Basri, Ramli
Asimiran, Soaib
Hassan, Aminuddin
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Basri, Ramli
Asimiran, Soaib
Hassan, Aminuddin
Teachers' perceptions on transformational leadership based on demographic differences
author_facet Talebloo, Baharak
Basri, Ramli
Asimiran, Soaib
Hassan, Aminuddin
author_sort Talebloo, Baharak
title Teachers' perceptions on transformational leadership based on demographic differences
title_short Teachers' perceptions on transformational leadership based on demographic differences
title_full Teachers' perceptions on transformational leadership based on demographic differences
title_fullStr Teachers' perceptions on transformational leadership based on demographic differences
title_full_unstemmed Teachers' perceptions on transformational leadership based on demographic differences
title_sort teachers' perceptions on transformational leadership based on demographic differences
publisher IDOSI Publications
publishDate 2015
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/59401/1/Teachers%27%20perceptions%20on%20transformational%20leadership%20based%20on%20demographic%20differences.pdf
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