Adjudging the Teacher Perceived Authentic Leadership, Leader- Member Exchange (LMX) Model of Management and Managerial Competence of Educational Leaders

Abstract

Teacher -perceived Authentic Leadership Dexterity, Leader-Member (LMX) Management Skills and Managerial Competence of Educational Leaders in Region VI, Western Visayas, Philippines are empirically adjudged in this research work. Authentic Leadership Dexterity was investigated in terms of the authentic standards of Insight, Influence, Initiative, Impact and Integrity, the Leader-member (LMX) Management Skills in terms of Role Making, Role Taking and Routinization management aspects; and the Managerial Competence of Educational Leaders in terms of Planning, Organizing, Communicating, Controlling and Directing management functions. Significant correlations between and among the Authentic Leadership Dexterity, Leader-member (LMX) Management Skills and Managerial Competence of the Educational Leaders as perceived by the Teacher-respondents were statistically determined.The hypothesis presented was that there are no significant correlations between and among the Authentic Leadership Dexterity, Leader-member (LMX) Management Skills and Managerial Competence of the Educational Leaders. Descriptive method of research was used in this study, the data gathering tools employed were sets of questionnaires on Authentic Leadership, the Leader-member (LMX) Management Skills, and Managerial Competence. Detailed methodological instructions were embedded in the research instrument. Mean was used with its corresponding verbal interpretations for research questions 1,2, and 3, while Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation Coefficient was computed as the data-analysis instrument to determine the significance of the correlation between the paired variables, and processed through the Statistical Program for Social Sciences (SPSS).Authentic Leadership of Educational Leaders, as well as their Managerial Competence, were rated as very good while their management skill based on the Leader-member (LMX) model was excellent, most specifically on Role-taking and Role making, with a significant correlation between and among manifestations of Authentic Leadership, Managerial Competence and the Leader-member (LMX) Model Management Skill   of educational leaders.In conclusion, the results of this research investigation implied that the teacher perceived Authentic Leadership in terms of Insight, Influence, Initiative, Impact and Integrity, significantly correlate with their managerial skills on Planning, Communicating, Directing and Organizing, have a high positive correlation with   their excellent management skills on Role-taking, Role making and Routinization. Moreover, based on the empirical data correlating the various managerial functions for  future researchers to  investigate the skills of educational leaders utilizing the LMX scale since as posited by experts, it can assess the degree of leaders and followers’ mutual respect for each other’s capabilities, involving subordinates in brainstorming and decision making activities, require a research agenda from every department that will look into collective constituents’ efficacy, teacher-student relationships, re-routing frame of reference in  designing pro-active successful planning with due consideration to routinization of activities; consistent monitoring of human resource activities to strengthen the trust, confidence and persistence among in-group team members, and providing innovative mentoring schemes to support teachers who are  deployed in their areas of assignments .      The themes correlating managerial competency and authentic leadership performance, educational management and innovation, comparing competencies in high performing and low performing institutions of learning, and competency profile of educational leaders, could be some of the research strands on leadership and management for future research undertakings.

Keywords: Educational Leaders, Teacher Perceived Authentic Leadership, Leader-member (LMX) Management Skills, Managerial Competence

DOI: 10.7176/JEP/10-12-04

Publication date: April 30^th 2019