Impak Strategi Politik Terhadap Amalan Kepimpinan Pengajaran Pengetua Cemerlang

2012 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lokman Mohd Tahir ◽  
M. Al Muzammil ◽  
Mislina Salleh

This study aimed to assess the instructional leadership practices and political strategies implemented by the senior principals. Samples for this study consist of 327 teachers from ten secondary schools in Johor Bahru that was leads by the senior principals. Insruments for this research was based on the political strategies adapated from Bolman and Deal (2003)’s political frame and instructional leadership (PIMRS) model which was developed by Hallinger and Murphy (1987). Result indicates that the senior principals utilized high-level all the eleven instructional leadership practices which emphasizes on the setting and enforcement functions of the basic or standard curriculum and the functions to clarify the school’s aims in instructional leadership, whereas the function of supporting the teaching activities and functions of perceiving and evaluate the teaching are given less priority. Finding for implementation of political strategies reveals that senior principals given greater priority to the elements of negotiation and bargaining, but less practices on the dimension of setting the agenda in choosing the elements of the current political strategy while leading the school. In addition, the data also showed that political strategies that used by the senior principal has much influence in practicing the instructional leadership while leading the school. Keywords: Political strategies; senior principals; structure equation modeling; instructional leadershipivity tinggi Kajian ini dirangka untuk menilai amalan kepimpinan pengajaran serta strategi politik yang dipraktikkan oleh Pengetua Cemerlang (PC) dalam memimpin guru. Dalam menilai kepimpinan pengajaran dan strategi politik Pengetua Cemerlang, seramai 327 orang guru yang berkhidmat di 10 buah sekolah yang dipimpin oleh Pengetua Cemerlang dijadikan sebagai lokasi kajian ini. Instrumen kajian telah dibina dan ditadbir berdasarkan strategi dalam kepimpinan politik oleh Bolman and Deal (2003) manakala item kepimpinan pengajaran diasaskan model Hallinger and Murphy (1987). Hasil kajian mendapati bahawa Pengetua Cemerlang telah melaksanakan 11 fungsi dalam kepimpinan pengajaran dengan fungsi penetapan dan penguatkuasaan dasar atau standard kurikulum sebagai amalan yang paling kerap dilaksanakan. Sementara itu, fungsi memberi sokongan dalam aktiviti pengajaran dan fungsi mencerap dan menilai pengajaran guru dinilai oleh guru-guru sebagai aspek yang masih kurang diberi keutamaan oleh Pengetua Cemerlang. Perbincangan dalam strategi politik pula mendapati bahawa keutamaan diberikan kepada elemen perundingan dan tawar menawar namun masih lagi kurang melaksanakan proses menetapkan agenda dalam ketika memimpin sekolah. Kepimpinan pengajaran yang diamalkan oleh Pengetua Cemerlang juga didapati disumbangkan oleh aspek strategi politik Pengetua Cemerlang ketika memimpin sekolah. Kata kunci: Strategi politik; pengetua cemerlang; model persamaan berstruktur; kepimpinan pengajaran

2021 ◽  
pp. 003232172110026
Author(s):  
Kurt Weyland

Responding to Rueda’s questions, this essay explains the political-strategic approach (PSA) to populism and highlights its analytical strengths, which have become even more important with the emergence of populist governments across the world. PSA identifies populism’s core by emphasizing the central role of personalistic leaders who tend to operate in opportunistic ways, rather than consistently pursuing programmatic or ideological orientations. PSA is especially useful nowadays, when scholars’ most urgent task is to elucidate the political strategies of populist chief executives and their problematic repercussions, especially populism’s threat to democracy.


Author(s):  
Mahesh S. Raisinghani ◽  
Celia Romm Livermore ◽  
Pierluigi Rippa

The goal of this chapter was to study the political strategies utilized in the context of e-learning. The research is based on the e-learning political strategies (ELPoS) model. The model is based on two dimensions: (1) the direction of the political strategy (upward or downward) and (2) the scope of the political strategy (individual or group based). The model assumes that the interaction between these dimensions will define four different types of e-learning political strategies, which, in turn, will lead to different outcomes. The model is presented in the context of the literature on e-learning and is accompanied with four short case studies that demonstrate its political strategies. The discussion and conclusions section integrates the findings from the case studies and outlines the rules that govern the utilization of political e-learning strategies in different organizational contexts.


Author(s):  
Patrick Geoghegan

This essay explores how the political language of the nineteenth-century Irish political leader Daniel O’Connell did not present a consistent doctrine, or a finely articulated programme, but a persuasion. O’Connell’s political strategy was to present a broad judgement of political affairs informed by common sentiments and beliefs about what was happening in Ireland. In doing so, he developed his own political rhetoric and articulated a language that inspired the downtrodden Catholics to follow him and agitate for their civil rights. The language remained consistent even as the political strategies switched and changed, and rolled and adapted to suit changing political realities. By casting himself as the people’s tribune, O’Connell made himself the champion of the oppressed, but it also ensured that his legacy was hotly contested.


2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3.30) ◽  
pp. 449
Author(s):  
Nitce Isa Medina Machmudi Isa ◽  
Azlin Norhaini Mansor ◽  
Jamalul Lail Abdul Wahab ◽  
Bity Salwana Alias

Principals’ instructional leadership practices have proved to be an imperative predictor to teachers’ self-efficacy. Yet, educators are concerned about the ability to adapt to new instructional leaderships due to unspoken principal-teacher expectations. This paper discusses the extent of instructional leadership practices by two newly transferred principals at two different schools. The purpose of this quantitative study was to examine how their instructional leadership practices affected the self-efficacy of the teachers. Through the use of a cross-sectional survey, responses made by 64 teachers employed in one public school and one privately-run school, were compared. The Principal Instructional Management Rating Scale (PIMRS) Teacher Short Form and the Teachers’ Sense of Efficacy Scale (TSES) were used for data collection. The findings showed a high level of instructional leadership practices and self-efficacy in both schools. The test results indicated a strong and positive relationship between the principals’ perceived instructional leadership practices and the teachers’ self-efficacy. Some of the details even suggested that newly transferred principals enforce specific school goals as their main agenda. Nevertheless, the areas of significance identified by this study may help district school superintendents develop the right knowledge to support newly transferred principals in their instructional leadership, thus enhancing teachers’ self-efficacy at the school level.  


Author(s):  
Maria A. De Villa

This chapter analyzes the political strategies of subsidiaries of multinational enterprises (MNEs). In doing so, I review the literature at the crossroads of corporate political strategy and international business (IB) strategy and identify four relevant themes. First, the types of political strategies deployed by subsidiaries dichotomize into engaged and non-engaged; and into legal and illegal. Second, the responses of subsidiaries to host political contexts, involve exercising voice, exit, or loyalty through different types of political strategies. Third, the determinants that explain the choice, approach (transactional or relational), level of participation (individual or collective), intensity, or dissimilarity of the political strategies of subsidiaries, can be clustered into five levels of analysis: home country, host country, multinational, subsidiary, and managerial. Fourth, the main outcomes of subsidiary political strategies are legitimacy in the host country and performance. The chapter concludes with promising opportunities for future research on political strategies from a subsidiary perspective, a growing area of study in IB strategy.


2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 30-42
Author(s):  
Celia Romm Livermore ◽  
Mahesh Raisinghani ◽  
Pierluigi Rippa

The goal of this research is to study the political strategies utilized in the context of e-Learning. The paper is based on the e-Learning Political Strategies (ELPoS) model. The model is based on two dimensions: (1) the direction of the political strategy (upward or downward), and (2) the scope of the political strategy (individual or group based). The model assumes that the interaction between these dimensions defines four different types of e-Learning political strategies, which, in turn, lead to different outcomes. The model is discussed in the context of the literature on e-Learning and is accompanied with a case study that is divided into four parts (“acts”). Each of the four acts provides an example of each of the four strategies in the model. The discussion and conclusions section integrates the findings from the case study, outlines the rules that govern the utilization of political behavior in the context of e-Learning, and lists the practical conclusions that can be drawn from a better understating of the politics of e-Learning.


Author(s):  
Celia Romm Livermore ◽  
Mahesh Raisinghani ◽  
Pierluigi Rippa

The goal of this chapter is to study the political strategies utilized in the context of E-Learning. The research is based on the E-Learning Political Strategies (ELPoS) model. The model is based on two dimensions: (1) the direction of the political strategy (upward or downward) and (2) the scope of the political strategy (individual or group-based). The model assumes that the interaction between these dimensions will define four different types of E-Learning political strategies, which, in turn, will lead to different outcomes. The model is presented in the context of the literature on E-Learning and is accompanied with four short case studies that demonstrate its components. The discussion and conclusions section integrates the findings from the case studies and outlines the rules that govern the utilization of political E-Learning strategies in different organizational contexts, including the application of the model across cultures.


Author(s):  
Celia Romm-Livermore ◽  
Pierluigi Rippa ◽  
Mahesh S. Raisinghani

This study focuses on the political strategies that are utilized in the context of eLearning. The starting point for this paper is the eLearning Political Strategies (ELPoS) model. The model is based on two dimensions: 1) the direction of the political strategy (upward or downward), and 2) the scope of the political strategy (individual or group based). The interaction between the above dimensions defines four types of eLearning political strategies, which result in different political outcomes. The presentation of the model is followed by four mini case studies that demonstrate the political strategies that the model outlines. The discussion and conclusion sections integrate the findings from the case studies and elaborate on the rules that govern the application of political strategies in different eLearning contexts.


Author(s):  
K. Dorjee Wangchuk ◽  
. Choden

The authors report a study in which they examined how the principals utilize to analyze the level and contrast of principals’ discernments towards instructional leadership practices based on individual and institutional factors along with identification of hindrances to leadership practice in Bhutan. The quantitative and qualitative approaches were deployed for this research. Three instructional leadership dimensions of, managing instructional programs, defining the school mission and promoting a positive school learning environment were used as measurement of criteria. The data were collected through Principals Instructional Management Rating Scale questionnaires and semi-structured interviews and analyzed using mean, standard deviation, t-test, and content analysis. The respondents consisted of 31 principals. These 31 principals are the representative of Instructional leadership from one of the districts in Bhutan. The findings of this study revealed principals’ high-level practices of instructional leadership and consistency among the personal and institutional factors. The result showed that all the 10 instructional leadership functions (Principals Instructional Management Rating Scale) almost at high level and overall mean generated was also high (3:58). Distinguished obstacles to instructional leadership were various roles, time limitations, work over-burden, lacking guidelines resources, shortages of teacher, restricted bolster for professional advancement, jumble between expectations and priorities. Within the light of the above findings, researcher would like to conclude that building learning culture not only depends on individual academic qualification but also the working environment and attitude of the academic committee towards student centered learning beneath the supervision of effective instructional leadership.


Author(s):  
Celia Romm-Livermore ◽  
Mahesh S. Raisinghani ◽  
Pierluigi Rippa

The starting point for this paper is the eLearning Political Strategies (ELPoS) model. The model is based on two dimensions: 1) the direction of the political strategy (upward or downward), and 2) the scope of the political strategy (individual or group based). The interaction between the above dimensions defines four different types of eLearning political strategies, which result in different political outcomes. The model is accompanied with one case study that is divided into four parts (“acts”). Each of the acts provides an example of one of the four strategies in the model. The discussion and conclusions sections integrate the findings from the case study, outline the rules that govern the application of political strategies in the context of eLearning, and list some of the theoretical and practical implications from a better understating of the politics of eLearning.


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