The Role of Leader Language to Promote School Climate: A Comparative Study of Private and Public Schools

Abstract

This paper provides a synthesis of theoretical and empirical literature on leader motivating language and school climate and investigates if leader language promotes positive climate specifically both in private and public schools. This paper involves the use of primary data collected through questionnaire as a research tool and both descriptive and inferential statistics to empirically analyze the effect of leader language on school climate. The comparative analysis of private and public schools revealed that motivating language of school principal from both sectors influences teachers and that they rated the leader language as modestly effective and overall school climate as moderately good. The results proved that leader motivating language optimizes school climate, thus giving the school principals an insight into the benefits of making accurate language choice for favorable employee and organizational outcomes.

Keywords: leader motivating language, school climate, school principal, private school, public school.