Effects Of Leadership Styles And Conflict Management Strategies To School Performance In The Philippines

Abstract

The study was conducted to determine the effects of   leadership styles and conflict management strategies to school performance of school principals of public secondary high schools in Region III. A total of 77 school principal participated in this study. Survey questionnaire was utilized in gathering the data needed. Result shows that majority (72.73%) of the school principals had an outstanding Office Performance Commitment Review Form (OPCRF) rating.

In terms of National Assessment Test (NAT) results, the overall mean registered was 41.77 which can be categorized under lower average. Majority of the respondents (68.83) obtained scores higher than 90 while the rest got lower scores in Performance-Based Bonus (PBB) .

Idealized attributes (IA) were found to be highly significantly related to NAT performance in Filipino, History and Science. Idealized behavior (IB) was found to be negatively but highly significantly related to NAT performance in History, Math and Science while inspirational motivation (IM) was also highly significantly related to NAT performance in Filipino, Math Science and English. Individualized consideration (IC) was also found to be negatively correlated with NAT performance in Filipino, History and Math.

Only dominating strategy was found to be highly significantly related to OPCRF rating and NAT performance in Math. From among the conflict management strategies, obliging and avoiding  was found to be negatively but significantly related with NAT performance in Filipino and History.Idealized attributes were found as influential predictor of NAT performance while dominating strategy was also found to be an influential predictor of OPCRF performance.