Presenting a Model for Promoting Positive Leadership among School Principals

Abstract

Purpose: Positive leadership among school principals can create a competitive advantage for the education system. As a result, the current research was conducted with the aim of presenting a model for promoting positive leadership among school principals.Methodology: This study in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation method was descriptive from survey type. The statistical population of this study was all 950 school principals in Fars province, which based on Cochran's formula 365 principals by stratified random sampling method were selected as a sample. The data were collected with a demographic information form and a researcher-made questionnaire for promoting positive leadership among school principals (30 items), which its validity and reliability of were assessed as suitable, and for their analysis were used from exploratory factor analysis and structural equation modeling methods in SPSS and AMOS software.Findings: The findings showed that promoting positive leadership among school principals had 30 items in 3 dimensions of individual (11 items), organizational (13 items) and environmental (6 items); So that the factor loading of all 30 items and all dimensions was higher than 0.40, their average extracted variance was higher than 0.50, and their Cronbach's alpha and combination were higher than 0.70. Also, the fit indices of the promoting positive leadership model among school principals indicated the acceptable fit of the mentioned model and this model had a direct significant effect on all three dimensions of individual, organizational and environmental (P<0.001).Conclusion: According to the results of this study, educational systems and schools in order to achieve goals and achieve competitive advantage can provide the basis for improving individual, organizational and environmental of positive leadership among school principals through the items of each of them.