The effect of administrators’ servant leadership on the excellence of Catholic school

Abstract

The research was aimed to study the effect of school administrators’ servant leadership on the excellence of CatholicSchools under Nakhon Rarchasima Diocese. A total of 326 respondents consisting 61 school administrators and 265teachers were involved in this study. A quantitative survey design using questionnaire as an instrument was utilized in thisstudy. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze the data. Descriptive statistic used in this study werefrequency, percentage, mean score and standard deviation whereas inferential statistic used were Pearson correlationcoefficient and Stepwise multiple regression analysis. The findings of the study revealed that both the independent anddependent variables were at high level. In short, school administrators were not only highly implemented servantleadership and its components but also the level of excellence was at high level. The excellence level of Catholic schools wassignificantly affected by three components of school administrators’ servant leadership at significant level of 0.05. Thesignificant predictors of the school excellence level were community establishment, trust, love, and having visioncomponents of servant leadership. The coefficient relative rate of multiple regression analysis was 0.651 and coefficientprediction was 41.60 percent. Finally, this paper also provided recommendation and suggestions for future research. Keywords: Servant leadership; school administrators; school excellence; Catholic schools