Relationship between transformational leadership, school culture and safety management in elementary schools in Pahang, Malaysia

The current study is an attempt to explore the relationship between transformational leadership, school culture with safety management practices among headmaster in elementary schools in Pahang, Malaysia based on teacher perception. This study also investigates the level of transformational lead...

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Main Author: Karuppiah, Chanthravalli
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2018
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Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/77423/1/FPP%202018%2037%20ir.pdf
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description The current study is an attempt to explore the relationship between transformational leadership, school culture with safety management practices among headmaster in elementary schools in Pahang, Malaysia based on teacher perception. This study also investigates the level of transformational leadership, school culture and safety management practices. According to the literature review, number of studies on safety management practices in elementary are still very less and most of the study available is related to sports practice in school or in other fields. Besides that, more investigation is required on the dimension of transformational leadership and school culture in order to identify their contribution to safety management in school. Full-range leadership model (Bass and Avolio, 1995) associated with Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (Bass and Avolio, 1997), Deming PDCA model (1993) associated with Questionnaire of Safety Values and Dimensions (QSVP) (Diaz Cabrera et.al, 2007) and School Culture Survey developed by Gruenert and Valentine (1998) were applied for data collection in this study. This study utilizes a stratified random sampling method by choosing 44 elementary schools and 374 teachers in 11 districts of Pahang state (Kuantan, Pekan, Raub, Kuala Lipis, Jerantut, Bera, Bentong, Temerloh, Cameron Highland, Maran and Rompin). Selected schools are including all types of school in urban and rural locations. Data analysis conducted by using descriptive statistics, Pearson Correlation Coefficient and multi regression methods. The results of descriptive analysis indicate that both transformational leadership and school culture dimensions were at high level where else safety management dimensions were at medium level among headmaster at elementary schools in Pahang. The result of this study showed that out of nine dimensions in safety management, only three dimensions were at high level. The rest of the dimensions were at medium level. The result of correlation analysis indicated that there is a positive, significant and high relationship between transformational leadership and overall safety management (r=.57, p=.00).The result of correlation analysis also indicated that there is positive, significant and high relationship found to be exist between school culture and overall safety management (r=.68, p=.00). This study proposed several recommendations to the Ministry of Education, headmaster, teachers and school administration to improve the level of safety management dimensions by practising transformational leadership dimension and school culture dimensions.
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spelling upm.eprints-774232022-01-28T01:16:20Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/77423/ Relationship between transformational leadership, school culture and safety management in elementary schools in Pahang, Malaysia Karuppiah, Chanthravalli The current study is an attempt to explore the relationship between transformational leadership, school culture with safety management practices among headmaster in elementary schools in Pahang, Malaysia based on teacher perception. This study also investigates the level of transformational leadership, school culture and safety management practices. According to the literature review, number of studies on safety management practices in elementary are still very less and most of the study available is related to sports practice in school or in other fields. Besides that, more investigation is required on the dimension of transformational leadership and school culture in order to identify their contribution to safety management in school. Full-range leadership model (Bass and Avolio, 1995) associated with Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (Bass and Avolio, 1997), Deming PDCA model (1993) associated with Questionnaire of Safety Values and Dimensions (QSVP) (Diaz Cabrera et.al, 2007) and School Culture Survey developed by Gruenert and Valentine (1998) were applied for data collection in this study. This study utilizes a stratified random sampling method by choosing 44 elementary schools and 374 teachers in 11 districts of Pahang state (Kuantan, Pekan, Raub, Kuala Lipis, Jerantut, Bera, Bentong, Temerloh, Cameron Highland, Maran and Rompin). Selected schools are including all types of school in urban and rural locations. Data analysis conducted by using descriptive statistics, Pearson Correlation Coefficient and multi regression methods. The results of descriptive analysis indicate that both transformational leadership and school culture dimensions were at high level where else safety management dimensions were at medium level among headmaster at elementary schools in Pahang. The result of this study showed that out of nine dimensions in safety management, only three dimensions were at high level. The rest of the dimensions were at medium level. The result of correlation analysis indicated that there is a positive, significant and high relationship between transformational leadership and overall safety management (r=.57, p=.00).The result of correlation analysis also indicated that there is positive, significant and high relationship found to be exist between school culture and overall safety management (r=.68, p=.00). This study proposed several recommendations to the Ministry of Education, headmaster, teachers and school administration to improve the level of safety management dimensions by practising transformational leadership dimension and school culture dimensions. 2018-08 Thesis NonPeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/77423/1/FPP%202018%2037%20ir.pdf Karuppiah, Chanthravalli (2018) Relationship between transformational leadership, school culture and safety management in elementary schools in Pahang, Malaysia. Doctoral thesis, Universiti Putra Malaysia. Transformational leadership Leadership Schools - Social aspects
spellingShingle Transformational leadership
Leadership
Schools - Social aspects
Karuppiah, Chanthravalli
Relationship between transformational leadership, school culture and safety management in elementary schools in Pahang, Malaysia
title Relationship between transformational leadership, school culture and safety management in elementary schools in Pahang, Malaysia
title_full Relationship between transformational leadership, school culture and safety management in elementary schools in Pahang, Malaysia
title_fullStr Relationship between transformational leadership, school culture and safety management in elementary schools in Pahang, Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed Relationship between transformational leadership, school culture and safety management in elementary schools in Pahang, Malaysia
title_short Relationship between transformational leadership, school culture and safety management in elementary schools in Pahang, Malaysia
title_sort relationship between transformational leadership school culture and safety management in elementary schools in pahang malaysia
topic Transformational leadership
Leadership
Schools - Social aspects
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/77423/1/FPP%202018%2037%20ir.pdf
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