Instructional Leadership and The Commitment of School Organizations

Abstract

Principal’s Instructional Leadership is an important factor for a school's academic success. In fact, principals spend more time doing routine management and administrative tasks, rather than teaching leadership. The purpose of this study is to examine the culture of Instructional leadership practiced by principals as well as to identify the relationship and contribution of instructional leadership to the commitment of school organizations. Instructional leadership is an independent variable while school organization commitment is a study-dependent variable. This study were carried out using the questionnaire techniques. The study also used a quantitative approach with a measure of principal communication style that is by using the CSM “Communication Style Measure” questions. The Principal Instructional Management Rating Scales (PIMRS) questionnaire developed by Hallinger & Murphy (1985) is used to measure principal instructional leadership. The questionnaire are related to organizational commitment that is the Three-Component Model Employee Commitment Survey (TCM-ECS) revised version by Meyer & Allen (2004). The researcher have randomly select samples from Kedah’s secondary school teachers in order to measure the organizational commitment. In total, this research managed to collect in total of 370 samples overall. The studies used the Descriptive statistics, T-tests, one-way ANOVA, Pearson Correlation, Multiple Regression Analysis and Hierarchical Regression Analysis to analyse the overall data. Quantitative data were analysed using SPSS 18 and AMOS 18 software.