Agile Leadership as An Antecedent of School Effectiveness: A Relational Investigation on Teachers

Abstract

Uncertainty, competition, and changes in needs arising from developments in the fields of globalization, science, and technology affect not only for-profit organizations but also schools providing education services. Since schools are expected to be effective in this challenging situation, agile leadership characteristics are searched on school managers. The purpose of the study was to see if school administrators' agile leadership attributes predicted school effectiveness, and it was conducted using the relational survey model. Data is collected by 605 public school teachers in Istanbul from 2020 to 2021 with School Effectiveness Index and Marmara Agile Leadership Scale. While the prominent findings do not create a significant difference in agile leadership perceptions according to teachers' gender, education level, seniority, and age, they create a significant difference according to school levels. While school effectiveness perceived by teachers does not show great differences based on their gender or amount of education. It has been determined that there are considerable differences according to the school levels, ages, and seniority of the teachers. Finally, it was found that school administrators' agile leadership characteristics predicted school effectiveness in a positive and significant way.

Keywords

• Leadership
• Agility
• Agile Leadership
• School Effectiveness.

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