The Availability Degree of distributed leadership Dimensions Among female Secondary Schools Principals in Makkah from teachers and school leaderships’ supervisors’ perspectives
Keywords:
distributed leadership, shared responsibility, leadership practicesAbstract
This study aims to identify the degree of availability of distributed leadership dimensions among female secondary schools’ Principals in Makkah from the point of view of teachers and school leaderships’ supervisors, and to detect the existence of statistically significant differences between the averages of responses according to the variables of job title and years of experience, This study followed the descriptive survey approach and applied the complete surveying method among leaderships’ supervisors and secondary schools’ teachers in Makkah Al-Mukarramah, a total of (16) leaderships’ supervisors, and (2982) teachers. The questionnaire was used as a study tool. The study reached that In general, the distributed leadership dimensions are highly available among female secondary schools’ principals in Makkah Al-Mukarramah. The four dimensions of the distributed leadership are highly available the following order: school culture, leadership practices, vision, mission and aim, and shared responsibility. There are significant statistical differences between the averages’ responses of the study sample regarding the availability’s degree of one dimension (vision, mission and aim) among schools’ principals of secondary schools in Makkah Al-Mukarramah. These differences are referred to differences in the job title of schools’ teachers. Meanwhile, there are no significant statistical differences among other