Background of Study
Student academic achievement is very crucial now to be address at every level, from a perspective of an individual, a family, an organization like school and nation as a whole. Student academic achievement must be achieved successfully together with non-academic area like co-curriculum. Nevertheless, the academic achievement is still a core business for a school to meet successfully.
There are factors that lead to a success of school and at the same time brings about the success of student academic achievement.
Since that this research will focus on the student academic achievement, as according to Balcon (2006), school leaders has the role of leadership in the school as an autocratic leader, democratic and laissez faire. Autocratic leaders implied as leader that has no confidence and trust to subordinates and never delegates, motives by treats, little communication and teamwork. Next, the democratic leaders have complete confidence and trust to subordinates and allowing them to make decisions. The motives are by setting goals, participation and sharing ideas. While laissez-faire acts upon the policy of non-interference and subordinates are free to do their work in pre-planned criteria and this leadership normally do not enjoys authority. According to Balcon (2006), the types of leadership stated are Transformational, Transactional or Laissez Faire Leadership. So, this research will find out the relationship between the leadership style (transformational, transactional and laissez faire) with students academic achievement and taking power as moderating variable.
Teachers are the respondents because this research will find out the relationship between leadership new era detriot tigers caps style (Transformational, Transactional or Laissez faire) and students academic achievement. Why teachers are the suitable respondents? Because, for instance, when a leader initiates a strategy, to be specific, academic strategy to increase students' academic achievement in a school examination, leader is only initiating the strategy and instructing, but the teachers who are going to execute it. So, based on teacher's perception as an executer for school's strategy, they are the suitable respondents to find out which are the leadership style that promotes student academic achievement based on their perception.
Literature had found out that power has a relationship with leadership style whether it can induce to more effective leaderships in terms of influencing subordinates, empowering or others. So, in this study, researcher will find out whether there is any relationship of power as a moderating variable between leadership style as independent variable and students' academic achievement as dependent variable.
Problem Statement
Leadership is unique to a particular person to another. The skilled adopting by leaders can be from experience, training or formal education. Adaptions of type of leaders are also unique and the ways the leaders lead are reflection of themselves. For instance, if a person is a visionary person, when he or she becomes a leader, they will become a visionary leader. Provided this, leaders must also equip themselves with other style of leadership that are able to ensure towards the academic achievements of students. Apart from that, training, seminar or workshop held by the government can drive attention towards the effective leadership style that will lead to students' academic achievement in an institutions or school. The research finding will help leaders or head teachers to have a guidelines on the effective leadership style that will brings to students academic achievement. Respondents are among teachers in government primary school focussing the area of ‘Pedalaman Atas', Sabah consisting of the district of Keningau, Tambunan, Sook, Nabawan and Tenom. These areas share the same diverse culture diversity and they are approximately consisting of people with lower level to middle income family. Leaders who are servicing the institutions or school as well as the teachers comes form different background in terms of education, demographic and culture. The research findings will new era detriot tigers caps assist leaders to establish their own leadership style to suit the needs and at the same time achieve to increase students academic achievements apart from formal training or education in the exposure of leadership styles. These findings will be unique to the locality of the schools, teachers, students and head teacher.
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